6. Venom: The Last Dance
If the first half of Venom: The Last Dance had been a little more like the second half, it might have found itself placed a bit higher on this list. It certainly would have catapulted it to the top of the Venom movies' ranking. But unfortunately, it wasn't to be, for Eddie Brock's outrageously outlandish symbiote bowed out on a mixed note.
Now, don't get us wrong, compared to Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter, Venom 3 is a triumph of epic proportions. It received a mixed response (instead of an overwhelmingly negative one) and grossed nearly half a billion at the box office. That's a pretty strong showing, to its credit.
The downside is that it never managed to overcome the constant issues that have prevented the Venom movies from truly shining and its incoherent storytelling made for a bumpy ride here. Not only does the unnecessarily harsh ending for Detective Patrick Mulligan reek of little more than shock value, the new characters introduced do little outside of moving the plot forward. It's all very surface-level, and the first half of the film drags as a result of that.
The good thing is that the second half of the film is so ridiculously bonkers that it delivers all of the unhinged entertainment we've come to expect from the Venom films. As always, Tom Hardy is in his element, and we are too as a result of that.