Venom: The Last Dance is an aimless jumble of plot fragments, loosely tied together by a vague threat that never fully materializes. This leaves little time to earn drama, rendering its few emotional scenes insultingly false and rushed. The exposition is convoluted, blunt, and generic. There are multiple shoehorned side threads. It has inconsistent humor, cliche characters, unnatural dialogue, desensitizing stakes, contrivances, and impersonal motivation. Even Hardy's committed physicality starts to feel confined due to the script's lack of purpose (also, the other actors often come across bland). Thus, Venom 3's patchwork story is simultaneously unoriginal and muddled.
Technically, Venom 3 clumsily stumbles between tones, achieving no legitimate emotional impact. Lacking color or clarity, the cinematography is frequently murky. The sound provides genre elements, voiceovers, and a few subjective distortions. Butchering scene pacing and broader structure alike, its editing is erratic. Its music has cute (but forced) needle drops and derivative scoring. Whenever the production design isn't an ugly hodgepodge of blobs, it's forgettable settings. While its cast has fit and star power in Hardy, everyone else is replaceable. Although elaborate, the CGI can be excessive and distractingly glossy. Overall, Venom 3 fails to mask its pointlessness.
Writing: 2/10
Direction: 2/10
Cinematography: 3/10
Acting: 6/10
Editing: 2/10
Sound: 7/10
Score/Soundtrack: 5/10
Production Design: 3/10
Casting: 7/10
Effects: 6/10
Overall Score: 4.3/10
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