I enjoyed the first “Venom” film. It wasn’t great by any means. It felt fun and it was different enough from other superhero films on the market to be enjoyable. However, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is completely dreadful. The special effects, the story, the characters, the dialog and the humour are all worse. It is a completely needless film when you have so many more interesting superhero films out there.

Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy “The Dark Knight Rises”) is continuing to have issues with his symbiote buddy Venom. In the hope of reigniting his journalistic career, Brock goes to interview a notorious serial killer by the name of Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson “Zombieland”). Kasady becomes infected with the symbiote and becomes Carnage. Now, Eddie and Venom must put aside their differences if they are to fight this new symbiote monstrosity.

The whole novelty of the challenges of having your body occupied by an alien parasite have worn off now. The jokes in this film are just painful to watch and it’s a shame to see Tom Hardy suffer through this terrible script. Woody Harrelson plays the serial killer maniac and he’s okay but I don’t care about seeing Carnage fight Venom because we already saw Venom fight another symbiote in the last movie. The special effects on Carnage are also rather lacklustre. In fact, the effects on Carnage make this look like a film that could have come out over a decade earlier.

The first “Venom” film showed us the challenges Eddie faces with an alien inhabiting his body but ultimately, they had to work together to face a symbiote. This is just recycling that exact premise. There’s nothing of value in watching this lazy film. There are many good superhero films out there from Marvel and DC at the minute so when a film like this comes out, it feels like a total waste. Why watch something as pathetic as this when there are so many better options. This is just proof that the superhero genre is oversaturated.