The Venom series – the freaky, cheap and slightly unsettling distant cousin of the Marvel family – gets a concluding third instalment. Venom: The Last Dance is essentially a split-personality buddy movie, in which numerous heads are bitten off and an invasion of giant aliens with wood-chipper faces threatens all life on the planet. World-weary Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom, the alien “symbiote” that shares his body, are on the run, from the authorities and the relentless Xenophage invaders, who turn out to be foot soldiers for a far greater evil. Hardy is a highlight, playing Eddie as a man who has had more than enough of the party that’s raging in his head, but Kelly Marcel’s film is a sloppy, incoherent let-down.
In UK and Irish cinemas
