Great movie which somehow, seemed much longer than it’s actual running time. The effects were simply top notch, as always, as with each new iteration of the series. No expense was spared, no doubt about it. Spiderman looks awesome as usual. Venom on the other hand, looked real cool and vicious. For once, it almost looked enticing to be a baddie at least for once. Sand man looked extremely superb too, with it’s … erm … sandy effects. For lack of a better word, sandy just underplays it. A lot of effort definitely went into the sand effects, considering the close-up shots with the millions of sand particles going into the texturing of the facials.

Somehow, I feel that it didn’t really explain how did the simbiote that is Venom get to earth, only that it dropped down from space. I’m sure the comic books would have elaborated on that part of the storyline a great deal. Since I didn’t read it, I don’t know much, except that it’s probably worth a good half a movie just to explain the coming of the Venom slime. At least they did to explain how did sandman come to be, although ti didn’t now really explain why was such a test facility so near to human existance, and that one would normally expect their test rigs to be at least a few miles away from any security fencing, realistically. But that’s not how it works in the movies anyway.

As with the past movies, there’s an underlying moral to it all – choices.