Monday, December 23, 2024

Venom: The Last Dance review — it’s dispiriting to see Tom Hardy sink so low

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What has happened to Tom Hardy? Whenever he appears on screen these days it’s hard not to roar back at him, like Obi-Wan shouting at the helpless Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, “You were the chosen one! You were in Bronson, Inception and Locke! You were the new (British) Brando! And now you make truly awful superhero movies with CGI blobs!”

And it’s CGI blobs à gogo this time, as Hardy returns for this third Venom instalment, playing a former journalist called Eddie Brock who is still the human host to an oily black CGI blob known as Venom (also voiced by a shouting Hardy). Now they must inspire several other CGI blobs to unite against an intergalactic overlord called Knull (Andy

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