Venom: Let There Be Carnage Review: Come For Tom Hardy's Comedy Schtick, Stay For The End Credits

Despite the brutal reviews (a lowly 30% on Rotten Tomatoes), the first Venom was a curious crowd-pleaser, earning over US$850 million (S$1.15 billion) worldwide. The sequel, helmed by Andy Serkis, is headed for the same hated-by-critics-loved-by-fans territory. As before, the moments involving Tom Hardy’s struggling journo — and Ducati-lovin’ — Eddie Brock squabbling with his parasitic other half are delightful (there’s a funny recurring gag about chickens). Alas, the actors — including Woody Harrelson, revisiting his Mickey Knox persona from Natural Born Killers as serial murderer Cletus Kasady, a scene-stealer before being turned into a personality-free evil symbiote Carnage — are just placeholders for the blurry, soulless, dreary CG monster-on-monster bedlam. What’s really exciting is the end-credits sequence that hints at the long-awaited crossover from another