I had no illusions about what kind of movie I was going to watch. It was warned that it was Fool’s Village with two monsters, so I was immediately set to meet the beautiful. And yes, the film is bad, weak, it's very simple, it's absolutely flat, predictable. There’s not a single unexpected scene, not a single twisted line, it’s like a child’s drawing – you know what’s going to be there before you look at it. One monster breeds another monster, they fight WHY, the first monster eats the second, and that’s pretty much all there is to the movie. The rest of the space is occupied by left-wing characters and empty, meaningless dialogues.
- The authors violated the canon. Carnage was just different from Venom in that it merged with the carrier completely and could not be removed. That's not true here. In the original, symbionts never spoke by themselves, only through the host. Talking to someone, Spider. Which is not here, and it makes no sense at all the action. Carnage was interesting because he was defeated by Spider, and for this he needed to show miracles of ingenuity. It's just meat, it's just a fight at the level that children put it, playing in the yard in all sorts of cyborgs.
- The action is primitive, single-celled. At the beginning, a statement is given that the journalist came to the maniac for his secrets - you can already shoot a whole movie about this, but then Venom just sees pictures on the wall, draws a map at home, and hop, the criminal mystery is already instantly solved. It's a drain. In the middle, Brock asks a friend to find a runaway alien in the middle of the city – this could also be the subject of a whole movie, but she comes to a familiar store and immediately finds it, handling the topic in one minute.
- When the nauseating plotless Deadpool came out, I thought the bottom had already been reached. The whole conflict there was due to the fact that the hero and the villain just got along in one scene and therefore wanted to kill each other. Venom and Carnage want to kill a friend just because go to hell.
- Casady for some reason decided to humanize, showed that he wanted to be friends and saved his girlfriend. Why would he need those qualities? We already have one badly knit antihero, he doesn't need another one, and he needs a natural villain. Empathy also destroys the last remnants of the viewer's understanding of what he is watching here.
- Venom and Carnage were the most important, darkest enemies of the state of emergency, and now they are just pea buffoons.
- In the end, the authors tried to copy a scene from Garfield’s Spider about how to catch a girlfriend falling from the bell tower, but they somehow decided that self-plagiarism would become more beautiful if you do it 3-4 times in a row. Therefore, women fall like this, and the villains catch them in different ways or do not catch them. It reminded me of that story about a man on a rope with a counterweight bucket. Gloomy...
- Especially ashamed of Woody Harrelson, who once starred in “Natural Born Killers” – a strong and socially harmful film about the same couple of maniacs, but there in every scene, in every dialogue there was depth, the work of the author’s thought, space for acting. And then he played a parody of himself.
What I don’t understand is the comments from the people that the first part was better. What do you mean? Both - the bottom, children's crafts with single-celled plots, which are entirely built around the curves of one actor. Both films are significantly weaker than any random series of the average series.
