Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 1, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 48 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
19
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Boston GlobeMark FeeneySep 30, 2021
Andy Serkis directed. Serkis, who’s given so many memorable acting performances (Gollum! Caesar the chimpanzee!), doesn’t elicit any here. The great cinematographer Robert Richardson shot the movie, which makes its lack of visual texture all the more dispiriting. Read full review
20
CNNBrian LowrySep 30, 2021
Two head-chomping symbiotes aren't better than one in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, a mind-numbingly tiresome sequel, filled with uninspired comedy and a CGI monster fight that seems to drag on forever. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 1, 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is wanton slaughter lightened by monstrous zingers delivered in a growl that needs subtitles, a colossal waste of talent in front of the camera and not exactly a resume builder behind it. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreSep 30, 2021
It’s so obviously shaped by fan response that it feels like the movie equivalent of someone who went viral online and now can only repeat themselves to diminishing returns in an attempt to hawk merch while they can. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 30, 2021
Watching it, unless you’re already a demented diehard fan, is utter agony. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSep 30, 2021
To say Venom: Let There Be Carnage is not worth seeing is not enough. It’s not worth admitting into your life, even as an option. You’ve read a review of it. That’s enough. Now, never think of it again for the rest of your life. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerSep 30, 2021
Fundamentally, its creators course corrected from the first movie a bit too drastically. Where Venom was a grim body horror movie with a very broad and sometimes extremely silly comic performance at its center, Let There Be Carnage is practically a romantic comedy between Eddie Brock and Venom. Read full review
32
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 30, 2021
Hardy’s use-it-or-lose-it charm very nearly drowns out the dreadfulness all around him, but ultimately it’s not enough to sustain life. And given that the actor has a “story by” credit here, he deserves more blame than praise. Read full review
16
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezSep 30, 2021
In doubling down on would-be humor, the already poor, perspiring, flop-sweat CGI mess of Venom actually gets worse and arguably even more incoherent, thanks to the unbearable, overweening quarreling between Brock and Venom and the vaudevillian crazy legs antics and presentation. Read full review
30
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 30, 2021
Managed (more than directed) by motion-capture star-turned-aspiring blockbuster helmer Andy Serkis, Venom: Let There Be Carnage has all the indications of a slap-dash cash grab. The set-pieces look sloppy, the visual effects are all over the place, and the laughs come largely at the movie’s expense. Read full review
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