Mercifully running at a brisk 98 minutes, this sequel does little to develop from the first financially-successful but moderately-received film. Once again, the film rides on the efforts of Tom Hardy, whose energetic portrayal of Eddie Brock battling his inner alien-symbiote is always enjoyable to watch, but like in the first film much of the attempted humour fails to land and the narrative is crushingly routine, and with this sequel focused strongly on the Eddie/Venom relationship, other characters and plot elements sometimes struggle to get a look-in. Andy Serkis clearly tries to inject some visual interest in his direction, including a nicely-mounted hand-animated backstory recap for pantomime antagonist Carnage. The finale offers a suitably lively CGI-drenched face-off, but it is hard to care about what is going on by that point.
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