Synopsis
After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.
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Cast
- Tom HardyEddie Brock / Venom
- Woody HarrelsonCletus Kasady / Carnage
- Michelle WilliamsAnne Weying
- Naomie HarrisFrances Louise Barrison / Shriek
- Reid ScottDr. Dan Lewis
- Stephen GrahamDetective Mulligan
- Peggy LuMrs. Chen
- Sian WebberDr. Pazzo
- Michelle GreenidgeMugging Victim
- Rob BowenBeaten Mugger
- 85
TheWrap
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a bold and brisk superhero story, unlike any other mainstream Hollywood film in the genre. It crams a heck of a lot of movie into an hour and a half, but it doesn’t feel like it needed to be longer. It just feels like we need more movies like it. - 70
IGN
Taking itself less seriously and having more fun, its relatively short runtime is packed densely with plenty of action, character development, and campy humor. At the same time, it’s a love story about relationships evolving and learning to grow and trust each other. - 67
Consequence
The results are deeply, charmingly dumb, especially the extended focus on the tete-a-tete between our tic-heavy underdog and his murderous companion. - 63
The Associated Press
It’s hard to overstate just how much the relative success of this film comes down to Hardy and his go for broke performances as Eddie and Venom. - 58
IndieWire
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is at its best — and its most unique, amusing, and fresh — when it’s tossing out those expectations and letting its freak flag fly. There doesn’t need to be carnage (or, hell, even Carnage), there just needs to be Venom, and more of it. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
If we're all disposable space chum in this franchise game anyway, who needs a coherent narrative and character arcs? Just bite the head off every chicken, and lean in. - 58
The A.V. Club
It’s a faster, wilder ride—and a choppier one, even as it moves primarily in circles. - 50
Slant Magazine
The title isn’t only a promise of so much destruction to come, but also inadvertently an assurance that its most action-packed sequences will be defined by loudness, incoherence, and pointless cruelty.