Venom: The Last Dance – Budget of $110 million – 1 hour and 50 minutes
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Eddie listens as a bartender tells him about a purple alien with a stone obsession. Eddie can’t believe it because the only alien he knows fixates on brains. A portal to Eddie’s universe opens, and Eddie walks through it. Venom makes Eddie a drink while the news plays in the background. The police issued a warrant for Eddie’s arrest. They believed he murdered Patrick Mulligan. Eddie must leave town now. He remembers that he has dirt on a New York judge. He thinks the judge can clean his record. Before they go to New York, Venom needs a snack. They find dog fighters for Venom to munch. They walk away with full stomachs and new cowboy boots. They don’t see human and alien surveillance following them.
Doctor Teddy Payne gets a text message from General Rex Strickland stating they are bringing the subject to Area 51. She races to the military facility. The government decided to demolish the site in three days. But the public doesn’t know about the secret base 100 feet underground called Area 55. That’s where they keep the specimens. Teddy looks Patrick in the eye and calls the alien inside him. Toxin warns Teddy and Rex that Knull is coming to kill everything on the planet, and the black one is the key. Rex sends the Air Force to find Eddie and Venom.
Venom and Eddie hitch a plane to New York. While Venom is gleeful, Eddie is fearful. Venom envelops Eddie’s body to comfort Eddie. Then, a Xenophage jumps on the plane and attacks. Venom absorbs into Eddie’s body and drops from the sky before becoming a parachute. Eddie freaks out over the fall, and Venom explains his actions. The Xenophage is looking for the Codex. When a symbiote returns its host from the dead, it and the host become one life force. That life force creates a key called the Codex. Knull sent the Xenophage to find the Codex. Knull created the symbiotes and Xenophages. However, Knull became evil, and the symbiotes imprisoned Knull with the Xenophages. The Codex is the only thing that can free Knull. Eddie died when Riot stabbed him, but Venom saved him, creating a Codex. It becomes a beacon for the Xenophage every time Venom takes its complete form. The only way to destroy the Codex is if one of them dies.
Eddie and Venom travel the Nevada desert until Rex finds them and starts shooting. Venom takes form and attracts the Xenophage. The Xenophage kills soldiers while hunting Eddie, and the soldiers shoot a sound canon to separate Eddie from Venom. Eddie and Venom escape together, but Eddie has innocent blood on his hands. Eddie and Venom must escape the San Francisco police, the Air Force, and Knull’s Xenophage without one of them dying.
The final installment of the Venom series combines the first and second plots (FTC Affiliate Disclaimer). You have a doctor absentmindedly sacrificing people for science while a crazed alien hunts Venom. The writers make several jokes, but you won’t laugh out loud. They make fun of the multiverse but work within it. The graphics flow and don’t distract the viewer from the story. And the audience can feel the struggle and bond between Eddie and Venom. You should know only a year has passed since Eddie absorbed Venom. Eddie and Venom singing Space Oddity by David Bowie with Martin and his family is a standout moment. It has zero action and feels out of place until the final fight scene. There is a mid-credit scene to expand this multiverse’s MCU, but the post-credit scene answers a question no one asked. This film is a fitting end to the series, but it’s equally good as the others.
I give it 3 out of 5 stars
I always look hot – Mrs. Chen
Hey buddy. You there? – Eddie
Everyone will burn, and you will watch – Knull
It should’ve been you – Doctor Payne
Still living your brother’s dream – General Strickland
You made it awkward – Venom
He will kill us all – Patrick
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