Netflix will be removing several titles from its database towards the end of the month. One of the first is the Marvel film Venom. In it, former DC villain Tom Hardy unwillingly dons the symbiote costume.
What follows is a conventional superhero film that becomes a unique experience thanks to Hardy’s eccentric performance. But what makes Hardy’s performance so special?
Venom disappears from Netflix: Bring the film back because of Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy almost single-handedly makes Venom seem like an original superhero film. The Sony production, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, follows a predictable plot.
The components: The journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), an unscrupulous scientist named Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) and extraterrestrial life formsOne of the symbiotes jumps onto Eddie, who then fills his body with the idiosyncratic (and expressive) Alien Venom has to share.
Check out the German trailer for Venom:
Venom – Trailer (German) HD
The popular villain and/or anti-hero from the Spider-Man comics looks like a horror monster with his white eyes and bared teeth. Nevertheless, the film was made relatively family-friendly and received in Germany an FSK 12. Thanks in particular to Tom Hardy, the film seems wilder than it actually is.
Tom Hardy plays as if four symbiotes were breathing down his neck, not just one
The actor who played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises feeds his Eddie Brock/Venom with a manic play energyso that the inside approximates the dangerously grinning exterior of the tar-like symbiote.
What the Venom script lacks in character development, Tom Hardy compensates for with tics, dialects and plenty of mumbling. This can be nerve-wracking in the long run, but it also visibly sets Hardy’s performance apart from his dignified colleagues in spandex.
Even without the symbiote, Eddie appears to be a shady character because of Hardy’s sweaty performance. Venom as Alter Ego he turns into an eccentric anti-hero. With the founding member of Sony’s own Marvel universe, one often wonders whether he wants to save or eat the other person.
Venom 3 is coming this year
Venom will disappear from Netflix’s catalog on August 23rd. Alternatively, the Marvel blockbuster will be streamed via Sky/WOW subscription.
There are even more symbiote dialogues from October 24th, when Venom: The Last Dance opens in German cinemasThis will be the third and, for now, last part of the symbiote series after Venom: Let There Be Carnage.