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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she mister telephone, how are

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Speaker 1: you mate? Still still recovering? I'm probably about that well done,

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Speaker 1: well done. Yeah, probably about ten hours ten hours of

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Speaker 1: sleep shorts so far this week, but I'm catching up,

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Speaker 1: catching up for it. What a weekend it was. And

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Speaker 1: now this movie I've got to talk to you about today.

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Speaker 1: There's some movies that I bring to you, guys, and

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Speaker 1: I know straight away that maybe it's not going to

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Speaker 1: be Leafa's Alley, a Venom and comic book movies. I

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Speaker 1: know don't don't float your boat, generally Rely and No

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Speaker 1: and the Venom franchise. Look, I don't have high hopes

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Speaker 1: that you're going to go along and see this one

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Speaker 1: leaf No the first film. The first film came out

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. It's Tom Hardy as an investigative journalist,

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Speaker 1: which is where they went wrong in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Tom Hardy has got a lot of qualities. Playing a

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Speaker 1: sort of an intellectual investigative journalist is definitely not one

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Speaker 1: of them. He's not really within his not within his wheelhouse.

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Speaker 1: But he's very good at the physical stuff. We know that,

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Speaker 1: and so in this film, an alien symbiote attaches itself

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Speaker 1: to his character Eddie Brock, giving him these superpowers. The

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Speaker 1: only catch is this alien symbiote, Venom, is not necessarily

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Speaker 1: a really good creature, like it's pretty manevolent. It likes

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Speaker 1: to feast on human brain, for example, and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: care which human it is. And so Eddie does a

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Speaker 1: deal with Venom that, Okay, I will let you eat

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Speaker 1: the brains, but they have to be bad guys, and

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Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, exactly the same. And Venom in the

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Speaker 1: comic book universe is one of the most is one

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Speaker 1: of the most beloved anti heroes of the Spider Man universe,

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Speaker 1: and so there was a lot of excitement when this

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Speaker 1: film came out in twenty eighteen. It was unfortunately borderline unwatchable.

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Speaker 1: The script made no sense. Tom Hardy's performance was bizarre,

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Speaker 1: and it just didn't work with this kind of cg creature,

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Speaker 1: this sort of covering his skin and then disappearing and

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Speaker 1: then appearing, and it was very, very hard to watch.

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Speaker 1: The sequel in twenty twenty one, Venom, Let There Be Carnage,

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Speaker 1: was a little bit better. It was directed by Andy Serkis,

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Speaker 1: who of course played Gollum, and it had wey Halson

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Speaker 1: as another sort of person who had been possessed by

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Speaker 1: a different alien symbiote, and you know, like it was

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Speaker 1: still a lot of the same problems. Tom Hardy's performance

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Speaker 1: was a bit weird. The cg was a bit hard

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Speaker 1: to watch, but you go, okay, that's like marginally better.

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Speaker 1: And now along comes Venom the Last Dance, which purports

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Speaker 1: to be the final film in this trilogy. We get

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Speaker 1: a sort of a conclusion, that's the point because Eddie

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Speaker 1: and Venom realized there is this, you know, big bad

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Speaker 1: guy somewhere else in the universe who's discovered their existence

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Speaker 1: on Earth and wants to kill them gain possession of,

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Speaker 1: you know, something called a codex. It's just a classic

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Speaker 1: mcguffin situation. And so they go on the run while

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Speaker 1: this alien creature is hunting them. All pretty standard stuff,

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Speaker 1: but they get some of the most poignant, funny moments

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Speaker 1: of the franchise in this film. But that is an

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Speaker 1: extremely low bar to clear. And then right at the

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Speaker 1: very and then right at the very end, when you go, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: the stakes are kind of a bit real. There's something

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Speaker 1: about to happen. Maybe not everybody is going to walk

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Speaker 1: away from this film, and so there's a chance to

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Speaker 1: give it like a little bit more meaning than perhaps

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Speaker 1: you sometimes get in these comic book movies. But they

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Speaker 1: absolutely stuffed up by trying to set up for future

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Speaker 1: sequels that are apparently going to start Juno Temple from

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Speaker 1: Ted Lasso as you know, as someone else is possessed

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Speaker 1: by an alien symbiot and just whatever, these future movies

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Speaker 1: look like they look like the worst thing that I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen, and so you basically go, you just you

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Speaker 1: just wasted all of my time watching the previous two movies,

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Speaker 1: and this one as well. I don't know, it's one

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Speaker 1: of the most egregiously shameless setups for future films that

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Speaker 1: could just completely undercuts this current film. Ben in the

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Speaker 1: Last Dance, it doesn't do Tom Hardy any favors. And

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Speaker 1: as for the character of Venom, which a lot of

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Speaker 1: nerds love, you know, it's a really really shameful way

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Speaker 1: to treat this character. Even though the previous couple of

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Speaker 1: movies weren't that amazing. This was meant to be the

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Speaker 1: last supper for the alien parasite. How disappointing A couple

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Speaker 1: of gags? Yeah, okay, well, how many It's such a

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Speaker 1: shame because I really like Stephen Graham's You Do. It

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Speaker 1: would actually be more enjoyable, I think, to take you

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Speaker 1: to this movie and just watch your reaction. Yes, let's

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Speaker 1: do that if we could. If we, I would give

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Speaker 1: that five start. Yeah, straight out of the game. But

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Speaker 1: as for Venom as the Venom the Last Dance two

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Speaker 1: and a half, two and a half, alrighty, We'll take

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Speaker 1: Lisa a long and I'll leave her brains while we're watching. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ben. Next week, Thanks guys here. Maud