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Venom: The Last Dance (2024) — unfunny alien hijinks pepper a nonsensical story

Hunted across the USA, Eddie and Venom face a desperate choice. As the net tightens, their last stand will bring their partnership to a cataclysmic end.

The unexpected success of Venom (2018) is to blame for Sony’s misguided belief that audiences care about their so-called “Spider-Man Universe” — that ironically doesn’t feature Spider-Man himself. Venom has been the only successful element of this ridiculous idea, as both Morbius (2022) and Madame Web (2024) flopped amidst awful reviews, and I predict the same fate awaits their upcoming Kraven the Hunter. And now Sony’s cash cow is being put out to pasture, as Venom: The Last Dance is allegedly the final instalment in this bad trilogy of films.

Picking up after Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is on the run as a murder suspect, so must travel across middle America to New York City to prove his innocence. Unfortunately, a monstrous alien called a Xenophage has been sent from Venom’s…