Maybe it’s that Sony’s Spider-Man-adjacent “Venom” movie franchise had nowhere to go but up after 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.”

Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach, Rhys Ifans, Clark Backo Director: Kelly Marcel Rating: 2.5/5 Runtime: 109 min The Marvel Comics character Venom is back again in a sequel to Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

For three films now, Tom Hardy has smushed Jekyll and Hyde into one strange and slimy double act. In a Marvel universe filled with alter egos that cloak stealthy superpowers, his investigative reporter Eddie Brock doesn’t transform.

It's somehow appropriate for a film about symbiotic creatures that the third and, for the time being, final instalment of Marvel's Venom saga should be largely populated by British actors playing Americans.

Tom Hardy, from the first "Venom" on, has chosen to offset the uncoolness of doing a comic-book franchise by putting his slumming in quotation marks, playing Eddie as a borderline doofus who talks like a grown-up version of one of the Bowery Boys.

Tom Hardy talked about the third and final Venom movie, "Venom: The Last Dance," last weekend during a panel discussion at New York Comic Con.

The Last Dance stars Tom Hardy and Juno Temple walked the red carpet Monday. The co-stars attended the film's New York premiere at Regal Times Square theater. Hardy wore black pants and a casual patterned shirt,