Venom: Let There Be Carnage 4K 2021 Ultra HD 2160p

The film continues the story of Eddie Brock who became Venom. The new part will focus on the confrontation between Venom (Tom Hardy) and Cletus Cassidy (Woody Harrelson).

Venom: Let There Be Carnage 4K Review
Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is trying to live in peace and harmony with Venom, but the disgruntled symbiote always spoils everything: he starts to complain that he is hungry and wants to eat human brains, and not to be interrupted by chickens and chocolate, then he will arrange a mayhem in the apartment, then he will completely destroy an already dysfunctional relationship with the ex. But the slimy second half of the would-be journalist helps him a lot in his work. During a short interview with serial killer Cletus Cassidy (Woody Harrelson), Venom notices in his cell hints of the place where the maniac hid the bodies of the victims, and gives out information to the media, thereby, in general, making his interlocutor absolutely uninteresting to the public, and so even more so for the state. The plans of the prisoner, who wanted to postpone his death penalty and revel in glory, did not have such a turn, so now Eddie Brock is becoming the number one enemy for him. And soon he will be able to get out of prison and take revenge personally: after biting the hero during one of the conversations, Cletus takes over a piece of the symbiote (SIC!) And himself becomes a giant carnivorous blot. As luck would have it, it was at this moment that Venom quarreled with Brock and separated from his master.

If the plot of the second "Venom" seems to you nonsense, so, frankly, it is. To cover all the get-togethers, melodramatic showdowns, mainline conflicts, references to past parts and a bunch of other details and storylines, most of which do not make the slightest sense, you will have to spend about a third of the film (and he, contrary to the tendencies of modern cinema comics, goes mean hour and a half). What haven't we covered yet? Yes, about a lot. Cletus, for example, has a sweetheart (Naomi Harris in the role of Screech) - the two of them were separated by teenagers, sending a girl with the superpowers of a bursting scream that sweeps away everything in its path to an ultra-protected cell. Yes, and Brock has enough problems: the ex (Michelle Williams) is about to marry some kind of mattress, cop Mulligan (Stephen Graham) constantly presses on his independent investigation, and Venom is already alone wandering free and going through parting, changing bodies people like gloves.

In the final credits of Venom 2, the creators self-ironically compare the comic strips (and, in particular, their film) with soap operas. If it is harder to find echoes of "Clone" or "Wild Angel" in the complex and much more "correct" from the point of view of academism, Marvel plots, then the new chapter on the difficulties of relations with a space symbiote itself writes a confession. Some take revenge here decades later (it suddenly turns out that Screech knows the annoying detective Mulligan and wants to settle scores with him), others, obeying the complex of the unlucky son, decide to challenge the pope (for Carnage Venom - a symbolic figure, paternal, if you like), still others ... Still others do not even hide their gay bromance: Brock's relationship with the symbiote finally lost the little heterosexuality of the first part, and even the authors began to ironic over the feuds of this young couple.

This, by the way, unfavorably distinguishes the sequel against the background of the first film. Venom was a silly, but definitely minimalistic portal in the 00s. The conflict was exhausted by explanations on the fingers of one hand, on the soundtrack - an old-fashioned rap from Eminem, instead of an exposition - a set of sold-out gags, so shameful that they are even funny. Simple, loud, incredibly stupid: the last part went perfectly as opposed to the newfangled bravura film comics with titanic timing, serious mines and rant about saving the world. Venom only wanted to eat, Hardy wanted to return the girl, the creators wanted to exploit the pop-cultural image so that, instead of the gloomy origin, the audience would get a very compromising and stupid movie about their beloved hero.

Here is the exploitation of exploitation. Say, we realized that you liked it so much in the first "Venom", so, perhaps, we will multiply all the details by two. This recipe, classic for sequels, does not work so unambiguously in the case of the continuation of the story of the symbiote. In the non-stop stream of showdowns, there is less and less action (sorry, but they go to superhero films not for cute gay bromances, but for some kind of spectacle), the jokes this time seem to be deliberately, and not accidentally, unbearably naive - the magic of the first film is lost , as soon as the authors themselves understand how their concept has failed. And they decide to have some fun with it.

The first "Venom" is a movie from the 00s, the second is an attempt to deconstruct a template, to make it more conscious, more self-ironic, in general, smarter than it seems. It's just that neither Serkis, nor even more so Hardy, who this time co-wrote the script, apparently, do not have such a sense of the comic as some James Gunn, who turned "Suicide Squad" into cinephil joke. The blots fighting on the screen are still amusing, Hardy is still diligently replaying and pretending that the voice of Venom is speaking in his head, and the studio bosses continue to shamelessly link the universes of different films (wait until the scene after the credits - a surprise awaits you). But the feeling of a pleasant opening, a meeting with a cute trinket that confronts the whole world of gray and pretentious movie comics, it seems, is completely lost - we are sincerely happy for Brock and his space friend, and not very much for the sequel.