These have been consistently messy, almost willfully bad movies, but Hardy’s performance has been a strangely compelling one-body buddy comedy. It’s one thing to throw a cape on and jump the sky. It’s another to run manically through the desert with an alien voice inside barking,

Venom: The Last Dance is another movie failing to fulfill the promise of a monster-style superhero embodied by a disheveled Tom Hardy.

Things have not been going well for Sony Pictures and its Spider-Man Universe (SSU) lately. "Morbius" with Jared Leto received several Golden Raspberries, Hollywood's negative awards. "Madame Web" with a listless Dakota Johnson in the lead role received scathing reviews.