Investigative journalist Eddie Brock is determined to break open the Big Stories and prove himself as a man who asks the hard questions of powerful people. Unfortunately, in asking hard questions of businessman Carlton Drake, who he has learned is conducting secret experiments, on human subjects Brock makes a couple of fairly serious mistakes, not the least of which is that he got wind of this fact by illicitly reading confidential documents to his fiancée.
Unsurprisingly, Eddie Brock soon finds himself both unemployed and unengaged. But his efforts to challenge Carlton Drake are about to have far more extreme consequences. A source at Drake's labs helps Brock break into the facility to get the proof he needs. This inevitably goes wrong, and Eddie is exposed to an alien symbiote that bonds with him as a host.
Now Brock finds himself with a constant sense of hunger, a strange voice in his head, and weird new powers that he's definitely going to need. Because Drake's not the kind of man to let one of 'his' symbiotes go without a fight. Oh, and there's also the matter that there's at least one other symbiote that's at large, and it makes Brock's surly, violent cohabitant look like the sweetest guy in the world.
Eddie and his new passenger, "Venom" are going to need to learn to work together if they want to stay at liberty ... and alive.
Venom is a goofy, over-the-top superhero film. It's by no means a deep or subtle movie, but it's not trying to be. It's aiming squarely at being a popcorn crowd pleaser with plenty of quips, physical comedy, and extravagant action sequences. And if you're looking for something uncomplicated and unchallenging and just fun to watch, you could do a lot worse.
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