Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom must fight off a universe destroying threat that is seeking a key created by Brock and Venom’s union. To undo the key would be to kill one or both of our anti-heroes. 

Touted as the final film in the trilogy, The Last Dance continues its predecessors scrappy and haphazard approach to tone and story. Other than two minor cameos from returning actors this entry jettisons all other characters, locations and plot from the first two films in favour of a road trip, a hastily explained new villain and some new characters who struggle to make any impact. 

Tom Hardy continues to have fun playing both Brock and Venom, although the comedy facets of the film struggle to land any discernibly funny moments. Andy Serkis, who directed the second movie appears as the new big bad, Knull, a character that you will know nothing about by the end of the film unless you are a comic reader. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a military man named Strickland who is every cliche that you imagine if you think of a soldier in an action movie featuring aliens. But most peculiarly Juno Temple plays a character named Dr. Teddy Paine who gets her own flashback story of how a lightning bolt killed her brother and paralysed her arm which has no bearing on the film at all. 

In fact the most interesting new character is a man named Martin played by Rhys Ifans. The reason he is the most interesting? Because Ifans already played Dr. Curt Conners in The Amazing Spider-Man in Sony’s Andrew Garfield Spider-Man era. This of course is just a casting peculiarity and points to how exciting the film as a whole is. 

In terms of issues it is just a continuation of those already encountered in the other movies. It feels like a choppy mess with plot points and characters alluding to things that never get fulfilled. It constantly resorts to messy uninteresting CGI fights. The tone is hopelessly mismatched between comedy, action and trying to be edgy. All of the new characters are cliches or have no time to build any impact. 

The Venom trilogy has been a tiresome bore when it should have been much more.