Bad.

Hacked up plot, wasted characters, wasted screen time for stupid emo scenes and pudgy crying face scenes. Unbalanced, unworthy of even the movie franchise, and practically unwatchable.

Actually, you could just watch the Venom scenes on repeat. But that’s 20 minutes of movie tops.

Another prime example of movie by committee. “Venom” and “Gwen Stacy” are just brand identifiers to these people, not living, breathing characters. That’s why they are ghosts in the film–they were put there to get you in the seats, not to make you glad to pay to be there again and again.

You know a movie franchise has taken a turn for the worse when some butler new to the movies can solve three movie’s worth of tension in one line of dialogue.

Let’s just hope Spiderman 4 starts the franchise over, so we can see a REAL Venom movie.

Spidey Begins? Hell yeah.

PS Just another brand with a “3″ in the title that Sony decided to run into the ground as they laughed all the way to the bank.