The movie was really uneven although interesting. The performances were really really good. Each of the human characters were well formed and pretty effortless. I think the whole thing falls down on the timing of the dialogue between Hardy and Venom. The voice work/dubbing for Venom is really laboured. It is just off and this really hurt the whole pace and flow of the movie. I think it is largely an editing problem, because the lines for Venom are kooky, menacing and over the top which is great. They just fall flat In the delivery. There was something really lethargic/sluggish about the integration of the CGI elements because all the scenes without Venom are seemless and comfortable and the Venom scenes are just sort of lame. Regardless of the timing issues which let our monster down, the kookiness overall was fun and Tom Michelle and Riz were great to watch. Even though it had a few glaring issues it is still way better than most of the crap out there.
Review of Venom
