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unpack everything about Venom Let There Be Carnage let's dive in venom Let There Be Carnage is a 2021 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom the sequel to Venom 2018 and the second film in Sony's Spider-Man universe as suu it was directed by Andy Circus from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock and Venom alongside Michelle Williams Naomi Harris Reed Scott Steven Graham and Woody harelson in the film Eddie and the alien symbiote Venom must face serial killer Cletus cassadi harelson after he becomes the host of an offshoot of Venom named carnage venom was intended by Sony Pictures to be the start of a new shared universe and plans for a sequel began during production on the first film harelson was cast to make a brief appearance as Cletus at the end of Venom with the intention of him becoming the villain carnage in the sequel official work on the sequel began in January 2019 with Hardy and harelson confirmed to return along with Marcel as writer sukus was hired as director that August partly due to his experience working with computer generated imagery CGI and motion capture technology which was an important part of portraying Venom and Carnage in the film filming took place at leaves Den studios in England from November 2019 to February 20120 with additional filming in San Francisco in February the title was announced in April 2020 Marco Beltrami was hired to compose the film score replacing lewig Ganson from the previous film Venom Let There Be Carnage premiered in London on September 14th 2021 and was theatrically released in the United States on October 1st after multiple delays from an initial October 2020 date due to the co9 pandemic the film received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success grossing $ 56.9 million worldwide and becoming the seventh highest grossing film of 2021 a sequel Venom the Last Dance is scheduled for release on October 25th 2024 plot in 1996 a young Cletus casadi watches helplessly as his lover Francis Barrison is taken away from St est's home for unwanted children to the Raven coft Institute on the way Francis uses her Sonic scream powers to attack young police officer Patrick Mulligan Mulligan shoots Francis in the eye and suffers an injury to his ear due to her scream unbeknownst to Mulligan who believes he killed her Francis is still taken to ravencroft where her abilities are restricted in the present day Mulligan is now a detective and asks journalist Eddie Brock to speak to serial killer Cletus in San Quinton State Prison as Cletus refuses to talk to anyone other than Eddie after the visit Eddie's alien symbiote Venom deduces where Cletus has hidden the bodies of his victims which gives Eddie a considerable career boost Eddie is contacted by his ex-fiance and Wang who tells him that she is now engaged to Dr Dan Lewis to Venom's displeasure Cletus who has been found guilty of his crime s and sentenced to death by lethal injection invites Eddie to attend his execution Eddie speaks with Cletus who insults Eddie provoking Venom to attack Cletus Cletus bites Eddie's hand and ingests a small part of the Symbiote back home venom has an argument with Eddie about wanting more freedom to eat criminals and the Symbiote decides to leave Eddie's body and go off on its own as cletus's execution begins a red symbiote emerges and blocks the inje named Carnage it goes on a violent Rampage through the prison freeing inmates and killing guards Carnage agrees to help Cletus break Francis out of ravencroft in exchange for cletus's help eliminating Eddie and Venom Mulligan visits Eddie at home and warns him about the situation at ravencroft Cletus frees Francis and they travel to the St Estus children's home to burn it down Mulligan grows suspicious of Eddie and arrests him Eddie contacts and as his lawyer and reveals that venom has separated from him as Venom makes his way through San Francisco by hopping from body to body and finds him bonded to Mrs Chun and convinces him to forgive Eddie Venom reunites with Eddie after first bonding with and to get into the police station and they escape custody Cletus takes Mulligan hostage and Francis captures an taking them both to Grace Cathedral where Cletus and Francis plan to get married Eddie and Venom arrived to fight Carn while Francis seemingly kills Mulligan by hanging him with a chain Venom is overpowered by Carnage but provokes Francis into using her powers to separate Carnage and Cletus Venom devours Carnage and kills Cletus while the collapsing Cathedral crushes Francis Mulligan is revealed to be alive and his eyes glow blue Eddie and Venom now fugitives decide to take a vacation while they ponder their next steps in a mid-credit scene as Venom tells Eddie about the Symbiotes knowledge of other universes a blinding light suddenly transports them from their hotel room to another room where they watch J Jonah Jameson talking about Spider-Man's revealed identity as Peter Parker on television a cast Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock Venom an investigative journalist who is the host of an alien symbiote Venom that imbus him with superhuman abilities seven director Andy sukus described Eddie and Venom's relationship as being in The Odd Couple stage in the film with Venom trapped in Eddie's body and just wanting to be the lethal protector which distracts Eddie from work and putting his life back together eight Michelle Williams as in Wang a defense attorney and Eddie's ex-fiance who briefly hosts Venom nine Naomi Harris as Francis Barrison shreek cletus's lover who can create Sonic screams 101 sukus described her as a damaged soul who has been living in isolation and has a dark side to her eight alumide ol andimi portrays a young Francis Reed Scott as Dan Lewis a doctor and ANS fiance 13 Steven Graham as Patrick Mulligan a detective hoping to use Eddie to find the remains of cletus's murder victims 8 11 Shawn Delaney portrays a young Mulligan 14 Woody harelson as Cletus cad/ Carnage a psychotic serial killer who becomes the host of Venom spawn Carnage 15 16 while in prison Cletus refuses to talk with anyone besides Eddie who he considers to be a kindred spirit Cletus looks different compared to his appearance in the mid-credit scene of Venom which circus said indicates the passage of time between films wink with a frown eight the character's hair was changed for the sequel so it would not be distracting to the audience 17 coupled with haralson's dislike for the earlier hairstyle and preference for a more realistic one 18 harelson was initially reluctant to provide the voice for Carnage and wanted sucus to perform it instead but circus encouraged him to find the right tone for the character 19 Jack Banda portrays a young Cletus 12 additionally Peggy L reprises her role from the first film as convenience store owner Mrs Chen who briefly hosts Venom 20 21 cion Weber portrays ravencroft Dr Camille pazo 22 Larry aan appears as a raven craftt guard 23 and little Sims appears as herself 24 footage of Tom Holland as Peter Parker Spiderman and J K Simmons s J Jonah Jameson from the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU appears in mid-credit scene with both actors uncredited five production development during the long development of the 2018 film Venom the character Carnage was expected to appear as an antagonist 25 26 during pre-production on that film The Creative team decided not to include the character so they could focus on introducing the protagonists Eddie Brock and Venom director Ruben fer felt that leaving Venom's most formidable villain for a sequel would give the franchise a place to go and would be a natural Next Step so Carnage's Alter Ego Cletus cassadi was introduced in a mid-credit scene at the end of the first film with the intention of featuring him in a sequel fer wanted to CED Woody harelson in the role feeling there was a natural connection between the character and haralson's performance in Natural Born Killers 1994 and asked harelson while the pair were discussing a sequel to their film Zombie Land 2009 after meeting with fer and Tom Hardy who portrays Eddie and Venom for dinner harelson agreed to take on the part 16 harelson described his decision as a role of the dice since he was unable to read a script for the sequel before signing on to the first film 15 in August 2018 ahead of Venom's release Hardy confirmed that he had signed on to star in two sequels seven at the end of November 2018 Sony gave an October 2nd 2020 release date to an Untitled Marvel sequel that was believed to be Venom 2 2728 which would place the film in the same release time frame as the first Venom wink with the frown 27 box office analysts believe Venom had been successful enough to guarantee a sequel would be made 29 Venom writer Jeff pinkner confirmed in December 2018 that a sequel was happening but he was not involved in writing it 30 fer reiterated this saying that he could not discuss a sequel but he saw the first film as Eddie and Venom coming together so there's a Natural Evolution from that to a sequel where it is like Okay now what's it like to live together it's like a romantic sort of relationship 31 in January Kelly Marcel signed a significant deal with Sony to write and produced the sequel after also working on the first film script this marked the official beginning of work on the film for the studio and was revealed alongside confirmation of Avi arod Matt tlmi and Amy Pascal returning as producers Hardy and harelson were also expected to return for the sequel along with Michelle Williams in the role of Eddie's ex-fiance and weighing no director was confirmed with Sony considering replacing fly due to his commitments to Zombie Land double tap 2019 comma 9 though he still intended to be involved in venom 2 32 by the end of July 2019 Sony hoped for filming to begin that November and had met with several candidates to replace fer as director since he was still completing work on double tap wink with a frown 33 34 directors the studio met with include Andy Circus Travis Knight and rert Wyatt 33 Sony was also interested in rert Sanders directing the film but that didn't work out 35 sukus confirmed at the start of August that he had discussed the project with Sony and it was potentially something that might happen 36 sukus was officially hired to direct the film in early August 2019 37 partly due to his experience working with CGI and motion capture technology as both an actor and director 37 soon after his hiring circus said Hardy had been working closely with Marcel on the screenplay which was centered around their take wink with a frown 38 Marcel explained that she and Hardy spent months developing ideas for the film which is the first time he received a story credit on a project before she then spent three months writing the screenplay herself 39 fer said he was happy to let sukus take over the franchise following the negative critical reaction that the first film received believing reviewers had unfairly treated the crowd-pleasing movie potentially due to biases against Sony and towards Marvel Studios rival superhero films 40 by the time circus was hired Hutch Parker had joined the sequel as a producer a friend of Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman Parker previously served as a producer for several Marvel based films produced by 20th Century Fox pre-production in September 2019 Reed Scott was expected to reprise his role as 's boyfriend Dan Lewis from the first film 133 the character shriek was also expected to appear as the film's secondary villain and a love interest for Carnage many different actresses were looked at for the part 42 before Naomi Harris was cast in the role in mid- October 1011 Steven Graham had also joined the film as detective Mulligan by the end of the year 8 11 toic said there was a chance the sequel could be raid are following the success of the R-rated Joker 2019 as well as previous successful R-rated comic book films such as Deadpool 2016 and Logan 2017 however to M caution that the PG13 rating of the first Venom had led to box office success and they would not be looking to change the franchise's tone simply because it had worked for others wink with a frown 43 the sequel ultimately received a PG13 rating 44 toic said the biggest lesson learned from the first Venom was that fans loved the relationship between Eddie and Venom and the sequel would focus more on the two characters together because of this 45 circus described the relationship as the central love affair of the film and explained that the sequence in the film where venom goes to a rave and talks about the cruel treatment of aliens uses imagery reminiscent of lgbtqi festivals because the sequence is intended to be Venom's coming out party 17 Chinese production company 10-cent pictures co-finance the sequel after previously doing the same for the first film 46 filming principal photography began on November 15th 2019 47 at leaves Den studios in herfordshire England under the working title Filmore 48 49 Robert Richardson served as cinematographer for the film reuniting with circus after they worked together on breathe 2017 50 filming took place at the campus of London South Bank University in mid January 2020 51 Hardy revealed that filming in England was completed on February 8th with a production then moving to San Francisco where the film is set 52 location filming continued in that City for several weeks taking place in several neighborhoods including the tenderloin North Beach Knob Hill and petero Hill in Peto Hill the anchor Brewery stood in for a police station while filming in Knob Hill took place at Grace Cathedral on February 20th and 21st filming also took place at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District 53 some filming in San Francisco was impacted by production on The Matrix resurrections 2021 with certain locations such as roads for driving scenes being unavailable to the Venom crew because that film was already using them helicopters that were being used to film Matrix sequences are visible in the background of a scene in the Venom sequel which uses dialogue to explain them as being police helicopters searching the city 54 re- shoots took place at Pinewood Studios 55 post production post- production for the the film began shortly before many film Productions were forced to shut down due to the co9 pandemic with circus beginning work editing the film in London with the editorial Department once post- production had to be shut down the film's editor returned to the United States and began working with circus remotely to finish editing the film 56 the initial director's cut for the film was around 10 or 15 minutes longer than the final runtime with suus wanting the film to be shorter than expected to to make it a real Thrill Ride and to try get to Carnage's introduction with as little Exposition as possible 17 Sony confirmed in April that the film was scheduled to be released on October 2nd 2020 and was intended to keep that release date despite the pandemic 140 later that month the studio moved the film's release to June 25th 2021 after that date became available due to other covid-19 related delays Sony also announced the film title as Venom Let There Be Carnage 57 an alternate title that was considered for the film was Venom love will tear us apart which was named for the Joy Division Song love will tear us apart 58 circus felt the delay in release would give more time to improve the film's visual effects and would help ensure that audience members would be comfortable with going to see the film in theaters 56 the director was excited to adopt the comic book version of Carnage for the screen and explain that the Symbiotes were designed to reflect their hosts so he differentiated Venom and Carnage by reflecting Eddie and Cletus respectively through their designs abilities and movements sukus worked with dancers and actors on a motion capture stage to help Define the movements of the two characters and compared Venom to a quarterback who used Brute Force for Carnage cletus's psychotic personality is shown through idiosyncratic and off-kilter movements as well as being able to turn into mist and create all manner of tendrils suus compared fighting Carnage to fighting with an octopus eight the film's mid credit scene was directed by Spider-Man no way home 2021 director John wering production of that film in March 2021 the film's release was moved back again to September 17th 2021 60 and then moved a week later to September 24 61 in August 2021 amidar coov two Delta variant surges in the United States the film was delayed again to October 15th 2021 62 by the end of the month Sony was reportedly considering delaying the film to morbius release date of January 21st 2022 following continued Delta variant surges and low boox office returns for films released earlier in August 63 variety reported that the studio was not planning to move the film again at that time 64 but deadline Hol wood described plans to change the film's release date as the worst kept secret in Hollywood following the box office success of Shan Chi and the legend of the 10 rings in early September Sony moved the film's release date forward 2 weeks to October 1 65 music main article Venom Let There Be Carnage soundtrack Marco Beltrami was revealed to be the composer for the film in December 2020 after previously composing for several Marvel based films produced by Parker 66 in September 2021 Eminem was revealed to be composing a new song for the film after doing the same for the first Venom titled last one standing it was made in collaboration with Skyler gray polo G and Mazy 67 marketing after announcing the film's official title in April 2020 Sony also released a short teaser featuring the official logo for the film 68 many fans of the Venom comic books criticize the title with some wondering why the comic book storyline title Maximum Carnage was not used 69 Sam Baran of the AV club also thought Maximum Carnage would have worked better or even Venom 2 and negatively compared the official title to films like Batman v Superman dawn of Justice 2016 the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford 2007 and Legend of the Guardians the owls of Gul 2010 7/ films Ethan anderton acknowledged these criticisms but felt it was a great title given the first film was surprisingly goofy 71 Vinnie manuso at collider agreed calling it The Perfect title for a beautifully stupid franchise he said it suggested Sony knows the kind of property it has on its hands 72 Tom Ryman also at collider described the teaser as Sony proudly showing off the logo of the new film as if the title isn't completely insane 68 in March March 2021 suus said a trailer for the film had not yet been released due to the co9 pandemic with Sony waiting until audiences could see it in theaters 73 the film's first trailer was released in May 8 with Ryan Parker of The Hollywood Reporter describing it as intense but with some lighter moments Parker highlighted haralson's improved wig compared to the first film 74 as did colliders Rafael mten May 75 and Cory chick Ola at Cinema Blend chiola praised haralson's presence in the trailer and expressed excitement at the brief shots of Venom and Carnage 76 with Michael Kennedy of Screen Rant noting that the first trailer for Venom had received negative responses for not featuring Venom in it and this trailer avoided that problem by showing both of the sequel's Symbiote characters 77 a second trailer was released in August with Sam Baran of the a v Club highlighting the expanded footage of carnage as well as the continued focus on Eddie and Venom's chemistry 78 Lauren massuda at collider concurred with barandi on both points and felt harelson had taken the spotlight of the second trailer massuda felt the sequel appeared more intriguing and mature than the first film 79 while Screen Rants James hopin that the sequel already looks much better than the first film in terms of tone character and visual effects 80 in September a character poster for and was alleged to have copied the silhouette of sh Venom from fan art published by deviantART artist space Maas Marine in October 2018 81 in December to promote the digital and then upcoming Blu-ray home media release of the film a web series titled Chen's Market was released to Facebook and Instagram live starring Peggy Lou and Santana Maynard the former reprising their roles from the film alongside the voices of Hardy and John Bailey 8 2 release theatrical Venom Let There Be Carnage was screened for fans in London on September 14th 20121 883 and was released in the United States on October 1 65 in real D 3D and IMAX 84 8 in August 2021 Sony and cj4 dlex announced a deal to release 15 of Sony's films over 3 years in the screenex format starting with Let There Be Carnage 85 the film was originally set for a lease in the US on October 2nd 2020 14 it was delayed several times due to the co9 pandemic moving to June 25th 2021 57 September 17 60 September 24 61 and then October 15 62 before being moved back up to October 1 65 home media the film debuted top the iTunes Google Play and Voodoo charts following its release on pvo services in late November 2021 86 in April 2021 Sony signed a deal giving Disney access to their legacy content including Marvel content in Sony's Spider-Man universe SSU to stream on Disney plus and Hulu and appear on Disney's linear television networks Disney's access to Sony's titles would come following their availability on Netflix 8788 reception box office Venom Let There Be Carnage gross $23.6 million in the United States and Canada and $93.36 190 million three in the United States and Canada the film was released alongside the many Saints of Newark and The Adams Family 2o with Sony estimating a $40 million debut and box office analysts predicted it could reach as much as $65 million in its opening weekend 892 the film grossed $ 37.3 million on its first day which included 11.6 million from Thursday night previews besting the $10 million made by the first Venom and marking the second biggest total since the start of the co9 pandemic behind black widow's $13.2 million in its opening weekend let there be Carnage debuted to 90.1 million marking the highest grossing opening of the pandemic to to that point and surpassing the opening weekend gross of Venom $80.3 million 9091 the film declined 64% in its second weekend with $32 million finishing second behind newcomer no time to die 92 during the weekend ending November 14th Le there be Carnage became the second film to cross the $200 million Mark at the United States and Canadian box office during the pandemic following Shan Chi and the legend of the 10 Rings 93 it ended its box office run as the third highest grossing film of 2021 in this region 94 critical response the film received mixed reviews from critics most of whom praised the performances of Hardy and harelson Chemistry Between Eddie and Venom and the mid-credit scene but criticized the screenplay 95 the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 57% based on 281 reviews with an average rating of 5.4 out of 10 the website's critical consensus reads a sequel aimed squarely at fans of The Originals Odd Couple chemistry Venom Let There Be Carnage eagerly Embraces the franchise's sillier side 96 Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 49 out of 100 based on 48 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 97 audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to f scale the same as the first film while those at postt track gave it a 76% positive score with 65% saying they would definitely recommend it 90 writing for Roger eert calm Christy lamir gave the film three out of four stars and praised Hardy's gung-ho physical performance 98 Kristen paig Kirby of the Washington Post praised the film commenting it's fast it's fun and buried within is a genuinely sweet story of about friendship and self-acceptance 99 Tim greerson of screen International said that suus direction keeps the rambunctious proceedings relatively taught making room for operatic action and a sneaky emotional undercurrent that pokes through the broad comedy and comic book Grandeur 100 James mam of the South China Morning Post gave the film a score of four out of five stars writing that the film is simplified more focused and even more intimate than its predecessor employing only a handful of characters and a remarkably stripped down narrative 101 Clarice Lowry of the independent also gave the film a score of four out of five stars describing it as a love story Written in Blood Sweat and the Slime of half-eaten brains 102 Tim Roby of the Daily Telegraph gave the film a score of three out of five stars writing Venom Let There Be Carnage is refreshingly nuts and benefits from being a whole 45-minute shorter than its predecessor 103 Joe Morganstern of the Wall Street Journal wrote that the film manipulates its audience with all the tentacles it can deploy most of them cheerfully ridiculous 104 William Hughes at the AV club believed the mid-credit scene would overshadow the rest of the film saying in the span of about 120 seconds the most externally interesting thing about Sony's latest big superhero Blockbuster is its connection to a whole other studi library of films he continued that the two Venom films were at least genuinely interesting and weird propelled by a devotedly odd performance from Hardy But ultimately felt that there be Carnage would become little more than the one where Venom gets pulled into the MCU 110 Berry herts of the globe and male praised the film's mid-credit scene but described the rest of the film as ugly cheap and dumb but not good Dum and a throwaway kind of trashy nothingness sequel main article Venom the last dance in December 2021 Pascal said they were in the planning stages of Venom 3 115 Sony confirmed the film was in development at cinemacon in April 2022 116 in June Hardy revealed that Marcel was writing the script after previously working on the prior Venom films and that he was co-writing the story with her 117 that October Marcel was set to make her directorial debut with the film and to also produce it 118 Venom the Last Dance is scheduled to be released on October 25th 2024 Venom Let There Be Carnage review Tom Hardy and Woody harelson tried to out crazy each other Marvel's iconic anti-hero faces off against his equally creepy red Nemesis in this incomprehensible followup to the hit Spider-Man spin-off right out of the gate Venom may have been one of the all-time worst reviewed Marvel movies the film has an abominable 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes but that didn't stop audiences from flocking to see AE Tom Hardy embody the character in The corny 2018 Standalone which racked up an astonishing $864 million plus worldwide no surprise then that parent Studio Sony whose grip on the Marvel Cash Cow has been limited to Spider-Man and his spin-offs rushed to Greenlight a follow up that would pit Venom against his most recognizable non-s Spidey Nemesis back in early 2019 managed more than directed by motion capture star turned aspiring Blockbuster Helmer Andy Circus Venom Let There Be Carnage has all the indications of a slap Dash cash grab the set pieces look sloppy the visual effects are all over the place and the laughs come largely at the movie's expense but it does introduce Carnage so in that respect mission accomplished the irony of course is that in their haste to get a sequel into theaters the execs couldn't have known that a global pandemic would swoop in to delay the release by a year if only they had slowed things down and taken their time to hash out a better story Kelly Marcel's script feels like she was tasked with taking dictation on a square one spitball session where the attitude must have been there's no such thing as a bad idea so long as all ideas were in service of getting Venom to square off against his blood red adversary serial killer Cletus cassadi a suitably derranged woody harelson who's been possessed by the same extraterrestrial symbiote that infected Eddie Brock acting even more erratic than he did in the original a not well-looking Hardy shares story credit on the borderline incomprehensible script which switches genres on Ruben fleer's earlier entry where Venom took the Fairly novel approach of treating a comic book origin story as an alien body snatcher horror film the follow-up plays like a cross between an 80s mismatch buddy movie where the characters share the same body and off-the-wall gym carry comedy the mask the disjointed First Act finds Brock Hardy still struggling to coexist with the shape-shifting space blob which manifests as a tar black piran toothed Siamese twin SL mutant tumor the metaphorical monkey on Brocks back growling insults only its host can hear and demanding human brains to nourish its insatiable appetite Brock has managed to keep Venom operating on a diet of chicken and chocolate but the parasite who incidentally behaves an awful lot like the ET and the far more entertaining Korean parasite movies Can't Hold Back much longer in theory that could have been licensed to come up with another memorably over-the-top public embarrassment building on what ex-girlfriend and Michelle Williams refers to as that bizarre Outburst at the Lobster restaurant from the earlier movie instead we observe Brock a Haggard tabloid reporter who looks like he hasn't slept or shaved in weeks trying to play house with this unruly organism as promised over the Venom and credits Brock has landed an exclusive interview with haralson's cassadi relying on Venom skills to solve a case that eluded police detective Mulligan Steven Graham that scoop puts casadi in line for the electric chair until the Symbiote increasingly unhappy with Brock's host fuses with casadi with much stronger and more destructive results relative to Marvel's more humanoid Heroes most of whom are just bulging muscles in bright skintight suits Venom and Carnage were freaky looking monsters by comparison whereas the earlier Venom movie was relatively restrained with how the Symbiote behaved the sequel aims to show a broader range of Tricks leaning heavily on unconvincing computer-generated effects to Showcase both characters potential while casad uses his powers to track down mutant girlfriend Francis Barrison AKA shriek Naomi Harris Venom breaks up with Brock and hits the clubs crashing a costume party as himself the executions too clumsy for the concept to register but if you take the trouble to deconstruct the movie you'll find two very unconventional romances natural-born killers casadi and Barrison spend the film trying to bust out of confinement and get married while Brock and Venom slowly learn to accept one another as life Partners overseeing it all is suus who understands the technology required to get the necessary virtual perform performances better than almost anyone but demonstrates almost no vision as a director this despite showing promise with Earnest Awards bait drama breathe and dark Ultra ambitious CG Jungle Book adaptation mgly but his Venom mentry is Gish and ugly to look at as digital characters wreak havoc on buildings we don't believe are in the first place at roughly half the length of the latest Bond movie before credits Venom Let There Be Carnage seems to have been cut to within an inch of its life leaving Phantom traces of scenes that were either scrapped or never shot why is casadi so angry at Brock he repeatedly refers to a betrayal that circus never bothers to depict or else maybe it got cut after test screening badly later there are segments clearly missing from The climactic Showdown as when we see Venom pinned beneath a pile of stone blocks where did they come from and wasn't he Brock just seconds before good luck trying to make sense of such gaps or the last minute hints as to where this franchise might go next including a mid-credits tease that connects Venom to the Spider-Man Multiverse maybe he'll Faire better there despite two dedicated features to his name and a prominent role in Sam ry's similarly disappointing Spider-Man 3 Venom maintains enormous untapped potential that someone's sure to figure out eventually friends if you're looking for a Blockbuster movie then this video video is for you make sure to like the video and if you're new to our Channel don't forget to subscribe and hit the notification Bell to stay updated in today's video we are going to talk about a film titled Venom Let There Be Carnage we'll go over what it's about and where you can watch it I will share share all the fascinating details with you including the platform or satellite channel where you can find it we will dive into the technical aspects of the film such as the music pre-production filming post production budget and box office performance in addition to that I'll offer you a brief review of the plot and of course we'll discuss the cast their performances and the actors who played the different roles in the film so make sure to watch until the end because we are going to unpack everything about Venom Let There Be Carnage let's dive in venom Let There Be Carnage is a 2021 one American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom the sequel to Venom 2018 and the second film in Sony Spider-Man universe SSU it was directed by Andy Circus from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock and Venom alongside Melle Williams Naomi Harris Reed Scott Steven Graham and Woody harelson in the film Eddie and the alien symbiote Venom must face serial killer Cletus cassadi harelson after he becomes the host of an offshoot of Venom named carnage venom was intended by ony pictures to be the start of a new shared universe and plans for a sequel began during production on the first film harelson was cast to make a brief appearance as Cletus at the end of Venom with the intention of him becoming the villain carnage in the sequel official work on the sequel began in January 2019 with Hardy and harelson confirmed to return along with marel as rider sukus was hired as director that August partly due to his experience working with computer generated imagery CGI and motion capture technology which was an important part of portraying Venom and Carnage in the film filming took place at leaves Den studios in England from November 2019 to February 2020 with additional filming in Sam Francisco in February the title was announced in April 2020 Marco Beltrami was hired to compose the film score replacing lwig gansen from the previous film Venom Let There Be Carnage premiered in London on September 14th 2021 and was theatrically released in the United States on October 1st after multiple delays from an initial October 2020 date due to the covid-19 pandemic the film received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success grossing $ 56.9 million worldwide and becoming the seventh highest grossing film of 2021 a sequel Venom the Last Dance is scheduled for release on October October 25th 2024 plot in 1996 a young Cletus casadi watches helplessly as his lover Francis barison is taken away from St est's home for unwanted children to the Raven coft Institute on the way Francis uses her Sonic scream powers to attack young police officer Patrick Mulligan Mulligan shoots Francis in the eye and suffers an injury to his ear due to her scream unbeknownst to Mulligan who believes he killed her Francis is still taken to Raven coft where her abilities are restricted in the the present day Mulligan is now a detective and asks journalist Eddie Brock to speak to serial killer Cletus in San Quinton State Prison as Cletus refuses to talk to anyone other than Eddie after the visit Eddie's alien symbiote Venom deduces where Cletus has hidden the bodies of his victims which gives Eddie a considerable career boost Eddie is contacted by his ex fiance and Wang who tells him that she's now engaged to Dr Dan Lewis to Venom's displeasure Cletus who's been found guilty of his crimes and sentenced to death by lethal injection invites Eddie to attend and his execution Eddie speaks with Cletus who insults Eddie provoking Venom to attack Cletus Cletus fights Eddie's hand and ingests a small part of the Symbiote back home venom has an argument with Eddie about wanting more freedom to eat criminals and the Symbiote decides to leave Eddie's body and go off on its own as cletus's execution begins a red symbiote emerges and blocks the injection named Carnage it goes on a violent Rampage through the prison freeing inmates and killing guards Carnage agrees to help Cletus break Francis out out of Raven coft in exchange for cletus's help eliminating Eddie and Venom Molin visits Eddie at home and warns him about the situation at Raven Croft Cletus frees Francis and they travel to the St Estus children's home to burn it down Mullan grows suspicious of Eddie and arrests him Eddie contacts and as his lawyer and reveals that venom has separated from him as Venom makes his way through San Francisco by hopping from body to body and finds him bonded to Mrs Chun and convinces him to forgive Eddie Venom reunites with Eddie after first Bond with and to get into the police station and they escape custody Cletus takes Mulligan hostage and Francis captures an taking them both to Grace Cathedral where Cletus and Francis plan to get married Eddie and Venom arrived to fight Carnage while Francis seemingly kills Mulligan by hanging him with a chain Venom is overpowered by Carnage but provokes Francis into using her powers to separate Carnage and Cletus Venom devourers Carnage and kills Cletus while the collapsing Cathedral crushes Francis Mulligan is revealed to be alive and his ey eyes glow blue Eddie and Venom now fugitives decide to take a vacation while they ponder their next steps in a mid credit scene as Venom tells Eddie about the symbiot knowledge of other universes a blinding light suddenly transports them from their hotel room to another room where they watch today Jonah Jameson talking about Spider-Man's revealed identity as Peter Parker on television a cast Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock SL Venom an investigative journalist who is the host of an alien symbiote Venom that Imus him with superhuman abilities seven director Andy suus described Eddie and Venom's relationship as being in The Odd Couple stage in the film with Venom trapped in Eddie's body and just wanting to be the lethal protector which distracts Eddie from work and putting his life back together eight Michelle Williams as Wang a defense attorney and Eddie's ex fiance who briefly hosts Venom nine Naomi Harris as Francis barison shriek cletus's lover who can create Sonic screams 101 suus described her as a damaged Soul who has been living in I ation and has a dark side to her eight alumide ol and FEI portrays a young Francis Reed Scott as Dan Lewis a doctor and ands fiance 13 Steven Graham as Patrick Mulligan a detective hoping to use Eddie to find the remains of cletus's murder victims 8 11 sha Delany portrays a young Mulligan 14 Woody harelson as Cletus casad SLC Carnage a psychotic serial killer who becomes the host of Venom spawn Carnage 1516 while in prison Cletus refuses to talk with anyone besides Eddie who he considers to be a kindred spirit Cletus looks different compared to his appearance in the mid credit scene of Venom which circus said indicates the passage of time between films wink with a frowning the character's hair was changed for the sequel so it would not be distracting to the audience 17 coupled with haralson's dislike for the earlier hairstyle and preference for a more realistic one 18 harelson was initially reluctant to provide the voice for Carnage and wanted circus to perform it instead but circus encouraged him to find the right tone for the character 19 Jack Bandera portrays a young Cletus 12 additionally Peggy louu reprises her role from the first film as convenience store owner Mrs Chen who briefly hosts Venom 20 21 seon Weber portrays Raven coft Dr Camille pazo 22 Larry Alo appears as a raven coft guard 23 and little Sims appears as herself 24 footage of Tom Holland as Peter Parker SLS Spiderman and J K Simmons SJ Jonah Jameson from the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU appears in mid credit scene with both actors uncredited five production development during the long development of the 2018 film Venom the character Carnage was expected to appear as an antagonist 25 26 during pre-production on that film The Creative team decided not to include the character so they could focus on introducing the protagonists Eddie Brock and Venom director Ruben fer felt that leaving Venom's most formidable villain for a sequel would give the franchise a place to go and would be a natural Next Step so Carnage's Alter Ego Cletus Sai was introduced in a mid credit scene at the end of the first film with the intention of featuring him in a sequel fer wanted to cast Woody harelson in the role feeling there was a natural connection between the character and haralson's performance in Natural Born Killers 1994 and asked harelson while the pair were discussing a sequel to their film Zombie Land 2009 after meeting with fer and Tom Hardy who portrays Eddie and Venom for dinner harelson agreed to take on the part 16 harelson described his decision as a rooll of the dice since he was unable to read a script for the seet before signing on to the first film 15 in August 2018 ahead of Venom's release Hardy confirmed that he had signed on to star in two sequels 7 at the end of November 2018 Sony gave an October 2nd 2020 release date to an unti Marvel sequel that was believed to be Venom 2 27 28 which would place the film in the same release time frame as the first Venom wink with the frown 27 box office analysts believed Venom had been successful enough to guarantee a sequel would be made 29 Venom writer Jeff pinkner confirmed in December 2018 that a sequel was happening but he was not involved in writing it 30 fleser reiterated this saying that he could not discuss a sequel but he saw the first film as Eddie and Venom coming together so there's a Natural Evolution from that that to a sequel where it is like Okay now what's it like to live together it's like a bromantic sort of relationship 31 in January Kelly Marcel signed a significant deal with Sony to write and produced the sequel after also working on the first film script this marked the official beginning of work on the film for the studio and was revealed alongside confirmation of ab arod Matt Tock and Amy Pascal returning as producers Hardy and harelson were also expected to return for the sequel along with Michelle Williams in the role of Eddie's ex fiance and Wayne no director was confirmed with Sony considering replacing fer due to his commitments to Zombie Land double tap 2019 comma 9 though he still intended to be involved in venom 2 32 by the end of July 2019 Sony hoped for filming to begin that November and had met with several candidates to replace fer as director since he was still completing work on double tap wink with of frown 33 34 directors the studio met with include Andy Circus Travis Knight and rert Wyatt 33 Sony was also interested in rert Sanders directing the film but that didn't work out 35 sukus confirmed at the start of August that he had discussed the project with Sony and it was potentially something that might happen 36 Cirus was officially hired to direct the film in early August 2019 37 partly due to his experience working with CGI and motion capture technology as both an actor and director 37 soon after his hiring circus said Hardy had been working closely with Marcel on the screenplay which was centered around their take wink with a frown 38 Marcel explained that she and Hardy spent months developing ideas for the film which is the first time he received a story credit on a project before she then spent three months writing the screenplay herself 39 fer said he was happy to let suus take over the franchise following the negative critical reaction that the first film received believing reviewers had unfairly treated the crowd pleasing movie potentially due to biases against Sony and towards Marvel Studios rival superhero films 40 by the time circus was hired Hutch Parker had joined the sequel as a producer a friend of Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman Parker previously served as a producer for several Marvel based films produced by 20th century box pre-production in September 2019 Reed Scott was expected to reprise his role as n's boyfriend Dan Lewis from the first film 13 the character streak was also expected to appear as the film's secondary villain and a love interest for Carnage many different actresses were looked at for the part 42 before Naomi Harris was cast in the role in mid October 1011 Steven Graham had also joined the film as detective Mulligan by the end of the year 8 11 toik said there was a chance the sequel could be rated or following the success of the rated Joker 2019 as well as previous successful rated comic book films such as Deadpool 2016 and Logan 2017 however to M caution that the PG 13 rating of the first Venom had led to box office success and they would not be looking to change the franchise's tone simply because it had worked for others wink with a frown 43 the sequel ultimately received a PG 13 rating 44 Tock said the biggest lesson learned from the first Venom was that fans loved the relationship between Eddie and Venom and the sequel would focus more on the two characters together because of this 45 circus describe the relationship as the central love affair of the film and explained that the sequence in the film where venom goes to a rave and talk talks about the cruel treatment of aliens uses imagery reminiscent of lgbtqia festivals because the sequence is intended to be Venom's coming out party 17 Chinese production company 10 cent pictures co- Finance the sequel after previously doing the same for the first film 46 filming principal photography began on November 15th 2019 47 at leaves Den studios in Hertfordshire England under the working title Filmore 48 49 Robert Richardson served as cinematographer for the film reuniting with circus after they worked together on breathe 2017 50 filming took place at the campus of London South Bank University in mid January 2020 51 Hardy revealed that filming in England was completed on February 8 with a production then moving to San Francisco where the film is set 52 location filming continued in that City for several weeks taking place in several neighborhoods including the tenderloin North Beach Knob Hill and Peto Hill in petero Hill the anchor Brewery stood in for a police station while filming in Knob Hill took place at great Cathedral on February 20th and 21st filming also took place at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District 53 some filming in San Francisco was impacted by production on The Matrix resurrections 2021 with certain locations such as roads for driving scenes being unavailable to the Venom crew because that film was already using them helicopters that were being used to film Matrix sequences are visible in the background of a scene in the Venom sequel which uses dialogue to explain them as being police helicopters searching the city 54 re-shoot took place at Pinewood Studios 55 postproduction post production for the film began shortly before many film Productions were forced to shut down due to the covid-19 pandemic with circus beginning work editing the film in London with the editorial Department once post production had to be shut down the film film's editor returned to the United States and began working with circus remotely to finish editing the film 56 the initial director's cut for the film was around 10 or 15 minutes longer than the final runtime with suus wanting the film to be shorter than expected to make it a real Thrill Ride and to try get to Carnage's introduction with as little Exposition as possible 17 Sony confirmed in April that the film was scheduled to be released on October 2nd 2020 and was intended to keep that release date despite the pandemic 14 or later that month the student stud moved the film's release to June 25th 2021 after that date became available due to other covid-19 related delays Sony also announced the film's title as Venom Let There Be Carnage 57 an alternate title that was considered for the film was Venom love love will tear us apart which was named for the Joy Division Song love will tear us apart 58 circus felt the delay in release would give more time to improve the film's visual effects and would help ensure that audience members would be comfortable with going to see the film and theaters 56 the director was excited to adopt the comic book version of Carnage for the screen and explained that the Symbiotes were designed to reflect their hosts so he differentiated Venom and Carnage by reflecting Eddie and Cletus respectively through their designs abilities and movements suus worked with dancers and actors on a motion capture stage to help Define the movements of the two characters and compared Venom to a quarterback who used frute Force for Carnage cletus's psychotic personality is shown through idiosyncratic and off-kilter movements as well as being able to turn into mist and create all manner of tendrils sukus compared fighting Carnage to fighting with an octopus eight the film's mid credit scene was directed by Spider-Man no way home 2021 director John wering production of that film in March 2021 the fil film's release was moved back again to September 17th 2021 60 and then moved a week later to September 24 61 in August 2021 a midar coov two Delta variant surges in the United States the film was delayed again to October 15th 2021 62 by the end of the month Sony was reportedly considering delaying the film to morbius release date of January 21st 2022 following continued Delta variant surges and low boox office returns for films released earlier in August 6 3 variety reported that the studio was not planning to move the film again at that time 64 but deadline Hollywood described plans to change the film's release date as the worst cup secret in Hollywood following the box office success of Shang Chi and the legend of the 10 rings in early September mber Sony moved the film's release date forward 2 weeks to October 1 65 music main article Venom Let There Be Carnage soundtrack Marco belami was revealed to be the composer for the film in December 2020 after previously composing for several Marvel based films produced by Parker 66 in September 2021 Eminem was revealed to be composing a new song for the film after doing the same for the first Venom titled last one standing it was made in collaboration with Skyler gray polo G and Mazy 67 marketing after announcing the film's official title in April 2020 Sony also released a short teaser featuring the official logo for the film 68 many fans of the Venom comic books criticize the title with some wondering why the comic book storyline title maximum Carnage was not used 69 Sam Baran of the AV club also thought Maximum Carnage would have worked better or even Venom 2 and negatively compared the official title to films like Batman v Superman Donna Justice 2016 the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford 2007 and Legend of the Guardians the owls of Gul 2010 70f films Ethan anderton acknowledged these criticisms but felt it was a great title given the first film was surprisingly goofy 71 Vinnie Manu at collider agreed calling it The Perfect title for a beautifully stupid franchise he said it suggested Sony knows the kind of property it has on its hands 72 Tom Ryman also at collider described the teaser as Sony proudly showing off the logo of the new film as if the title isn't completely insane 68 in March 2021 suus said a trailer for the film had not yet been released due to the covid-19 pandemic with Sony waiting until audiences could see it in theaters 73 the film's first trailer was released in May 8 with Ryan Parker of The Hollywood Reporter describing it as intense but with some lighter moments Parker highlighted haralson's improved wig compared to the first film 74 Astic collider's rafhael mo may 75 and Cory Chilla at Cinema Blend Chi Zilla praised haralson's presence in the trailer and expressed excitement at the brief shots of Venom and Carnage 76 with Michael Kennedy of Screen Rant noting that the first trailer for Venom had received negative responses for not featuring Venom in it and this trailer avoided that problem by showing both of the secret equals symbiote characters 77 a second trailer was released in August with Sam Baran of the a v Club highlighting the expanded footage of Carnage as well as the continued focus on Eddie and Venom's chemistry 78 Lauren muda at collider concur with barand on both points and felt harelson had taken the spotlight of the second trailer massuda felt the sequel appeared more intriguing and mature than the first film 79 while Screen Rants James hopin that the sequel already looks much better than the first film in terms of of tone character and visual effects 80 in September a character poster for and was alleged to have copied the silhouette of she Venom from fan art published by Dev andart artist space ma Marine in October 2018 81 in December to promote the digital and then up coming Blu-ray home media release of the film a web series titled Chen's Market was released to Facebook and Instagram live starring Peggy Lou and Santana Maynard the former reprising their roles from the film alongside the voices of Hardy and John Bailey 82 release theatrical Venom Let There Be Carnage was screened for fans in London on September 14th 2021 83 and was released in the United States on October 1 65 in realy 3D and IMAX 84 8 in August 2021 Sony and cj4 dlex announced a deal to release 15 of Sony's films over 3 years in the screenex format starting with Le there be Carnage 85 the film was originally set for release in the US on October 2nd 2020 14 it was delayed several times due to the covid-19 pandemic moving to June 25th 2021 57 September 17 60 September 24 61 and then October 15 62 before being moved back up to October 1 65 home media the film debuted top the iTunes Google Play and Voodoo charts following its release on pvod services in late November 2021 86 in April 2021 Sony signed a deal giving Disney access to their legacy content including Marvel content in Sony Spider-Man universe SSU to stream on Disney plus and Hulu and appear on Disney's linear television networks Disney's access to Sony's titles would come following their availability on Netflix 8788 reception box office Venom let thereby Carnage grossed $23.6 million in the United States in Canada and $293.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $56.90 million three in the United States and Canada the film was released alongside the many Saints of Newark and The Adams Family 2o with Sony estimating a $40 million debut and box office analysts predicted it could reach as much as $65 million in its opening weekend 89 2 the film grows 37.4 $3 million on its first day which included $1.6 million from Thursday night previews besting the $10 million made by the first Venom and marking the second biggest total since the start of the covid-19 pandemic behind black widows $ 13.2 million in its opening weekend let there be Carnage debuted to 90.1 million marking the highest grossing opening of the pandemic to that point and surpassing the opening weekend gross Venom $80.3 million 9091 the film declined 64 % in its second weekend with $32 million finishing second behind newcomer no time to die 92 during the weekend ending November 14th Let There Be Carnage became the second film to cross the $2 200 million Mark at the United States and Canadian box office during the pandemic following Shang Chi and the legend of the 10 Rings 93 it ended its box office run as the third highest grossing film of 2021 in this region 94 critical response the film received mixed reviews from critics most of whom praised the performances of hard Hardy and harelson Chemistry Between Eddie and Venom and the mid credit scene but criticized the screenplay 95 the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 57% based on 281 reviews with an average rating of 5. 4 out of 10 the website's critical consensus reads a sequel aimed squarely at fans of The Originals Odd Couple chemistry Venom Let There Be Carnage eagerly Embraces the franchise's sillier side 96 medic critic assigned the film awaited average score of 49 out of 100 based on 48 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 97 audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to f scale the same as the first film while those at post track gave it a 76% positive score score with 65% saying they would definitely recommend it 90 writing for Roger Ebert C Christy lamir gave the film three out of four stars and praised Hardy's gungho physical performance 98 Kristen paig Kirby of the Washington Post praise the film commenting it's fast it's fun and buried within is a genuinely sweet story about friendship and self-acceptance 99 Tim gron of screen International said that suus direction keeps the rambunctious proceedings relatively taught making room for operadic action and a sneaky emotional undercurrent that pokes through the broad comedy and comic book Grandeur 100 James mam of the South China Morning Post gave the film a score of four out of five stars writing that the film is simplified more focused and even more intimate than its predecessor employing only only a handful of characters and a remarkably stripped down narrative 101 Clarice Lowry of the independent also gave the film a score of four out of five stars describing it as a love story Written in Blood Sweat and the Slime of half eaten brains two Tim Roby of the Daily Telegraph gave the film a score of three out of five stars writing Venom Let There Be Carnage is refreshingly nuts and benefits from being a whole 45 minutes shorter than its predecessor 1003 Joe Morganstern of the Wall Street Journal wrote that the film manipulates its audience with all the tentacles they can deploy most of them cheerfully ridiculous 104 William Hughes at the AV club believed the mid credit scene would overshadow the rest of the film saying in the span of about 120 seconds the most externally interesting thing about Sony's latest big superhero Blockbuster is its connection to a whole other Studio's library of films he continued that the two Venom films were at least genuinely interesting and weird propelled by a devotedly odd performance from Hardy but ultimately felt that there be Carnage would become little more than the one where Venom gets pulled into the MCU 110 Berry Hertz of the globe and male praised the film's mid credit scene but described the rest of the film as ugly cheap and dumb but not good Dum and a throwaway kind of trashy nothingness sequel main article Venom the last dance in December 2021 Pascal said they were in the planning stages of Venom 3 115 Sony confirmed the film was in development at Cinema Con in April 2022 116 in June Hardy revealed that Marcel was writing the script after previously working on the prior Venom films and that he was co-writing the story with her 117 that October Marcel was set to make her directorial debut with the film and to also produce it 118 Venom the Last Dance is scheduled to be released on October 25th 2024 Venom Let There Be Carnage review Tom Hardy and Woody harelson tried to out crazy each other Marvel's iconic antihero faces off against his equally creepy red Nemesis in this incomprehensible followup to the hit Spider-Man spin-off right out of the gate Venom may have been one of the alltime worst reviewed Marvel movies the film has an abominable 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes but that didn't stop audiences from flocking to see a bugy Tom Hardy embody the character in The corny 2018 stand alone which racked up an astonishing $864 million plus worldwide no surprise then that parent Studio Sony whose grip on the Marvel Cash Cow has been limited to Spider-Man and his spin-offs rushed to Greenlight a followup that would pit Venom against his most recognizable nonsp Nemesis back in early 2019 managed more than directed by motion capture star turned aspiring Blockbuster Helmer Andy Circus Venom Let There Be Carnage has all the indications of a slap Dash cash grab the set pieces look sloppy the visual effects are all over the place and the laughs come largely at the movie's expense but it does introduce Carnage so in that respect mission accomplished the irony of course is that in their haste to get a sequel into theaters the execs couldn't have known that a global pandemic would swoop and to delay the release by a year Here If Only They had slowed things down and taken their time to hash out a better story Kelly Marcel's script feels like she was tasked with taking dictation on a square one spitball session where the attitude must have been there's no such thing as a bad idea so long as all ideas were in service of getting Venom to square off against his blood red adversary serial killer Cletus cassadi a suitably deranged Woody harelson who's been possessed by this same extraterrestrial symbiote that infected Eddie Brock acting even more erratic than he did in the original a not well-looking Hardy shares story credit on the borderline incomprehensible script which switches genres on Reuben feser's earlier entry where Venom took the Fairly novel approach of treating a comic book origin story as an alien body snatcher horror film the followup plays like a cross between an 80s m match buddy movie where the characters share the same body and off-the-wall gym carry comedy the mask the disjointed First Act finds Brock Hardy still struggling to coexist with the shapeshifting space blob which manifests as a tar black piran toothed siames twins SL mutant tumor the metaphorical monkey on Brock's back growling insults only its host can hear and demanding human brains to nourish its insatable appetite Brock has managed to keep Venom operating on a diet of chicken and chocolate but the parasite who incidentally behav an awful lot like the Ed and the far more entertaining Korean parasite movies Can't Hold Back much longer in theory that could have been licensed to come up with another memorably over-the-top public embarrassment building on what ex-girlfriend and Michelle Williams refers to as that bizarre outbreak burst at the Lobster restaurant from the earlier movie instead we observe Brock a Haggard tabloid reporter who looks like he hasn't slept or shaved in weeks trying to play house with this unruly organism as promised over the Venom and credits Brock has landed an exclusive inter interview with haralson's cassad relying on Venom skills to solve a case that eluded police detective Mulligan step Graham that scoop puts casad in line for the electric chair until the Symbiote increasingly unhappy with Brock's host fuses with casadi with much strong stronger and more destructive results relative to Marvel's more humanoid Heroes most of whom are just bulging muscles and bright skin tight suits Venom and Carnage were freaky looking monsters by comparison whereas the earlier Venom movie was relatively restrained with how the Symbiote behaved the sequel aims to show a broader range of Tricks leaning heavily on unconvincing computer generated effects to Showcase both characters potential while casad uses his powers to track down mutant girlfriend Francis Barrison AK shriek Naomi Harris Venom breaks up with Brock and hits the clubs crashing a costume party as himself the executions too clumsy for the concept to register but if you take the trouble to deconstruct the movie you'll find two very unconventional romances Natural Born Killers cassad and barison spend the film trying to bust out of confinement and get married while Brock and Venom slowly learn to accept one another as life Partners overseeing it all is suus who understands the technology required to get the necessary virtual performances better than almost anyone but demonstrates almost no vision as a direct this despite showing promise with Earnest Awards bit drama breathe and dark Ultra ambitious CG Jungle Book adaptation mle but his Venom mry is garish and ugly to look at as digital characters wreak havoc on buildings we don't believe are in the first place at roughly half the length of the latest Bond movie before credits Venom Let There Be Carnage seems to have been cut to within an inch of its life leaving Phantom traces of scenes that were either scrapped or never shot why is casad so angry at Brock he repeatedly refers to a betrayal that circus never bothers to depict or else maybe it got cut after test screening badly later there are segments clearly missing from The climactic Showdown as when we see Venom pin beneath a pile of stone blocks where did they come from and wasn't he Brock just seconds before good luck trying to make make sense of such gaps or the last minute hints as to where this franchise might go next including a mid credits tease that connects Venom to the Spiderman Multiverse maybe he'll feir better there despite two dedicated features to his name and a prominent role in Sam ry's similarly dis pointing Spider-Man 3 Venom maintains enormous untapped potential that someone's sure to figure out eventually e