An idea is like a virus, they say.
It’s resilient, highly contagious, and even the smallest seed of an idea can grow, and grow to define or destroy you.
In Sony’s not-really-anti, anti-superhero movie about an extraterrestrial intestinal worm, an incredibly ill-advised idea takes hold and is seen through to the bitter, ridiculous end: the parasite is Venom, a protozoa alien that infect and overwhelms its unsuspecting human host victim, and like the biotoxin germs that leave the protagonist gravely unwell, the all-consumingly cartoonish concepts in “Venom” are regrettably defining, self-immolating and gag-reflexively misjudged.Continue reading ‘Venom’: Tom Hardy’s Parasite Antihero Film Is Laughable & Septic [Review] at The Playlist.
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