Marvel seem to have started scrabbling around somewhat for which franchise to invest in next, none more so than here with a alien symbiote taking over and making an anti-hero out of Tom Hardy. The character first appeared in the ill-fated Spider-Man 3 and perhaps that, for all of Hardy's charisma, should have served as a bad omen for this effort. By the time the monster parasitically occuping his body starts talking to him like an American gangster, presumably for comic effect, things have already sailed well up the Swanee, with an off-the-shelf millionaire scientist villain bent on exploiting the alien, and all the subsequent frenzied overspend on FX can't retrieve the situation. Not that the audience paid much heed, since it ended up as the sixth-most profitable film of 2018 worldwide and had a sequel out in 2021.
4/10
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