2021 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Directed by Andy Serkis1h 37m2021
After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.
Our read: Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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