Tom Hardy is such a great actor. I can't believe he was Bane, Venom, and Mad Max (Fury Road: 2015). Those were three completely different characters. In Venom, he played such a great loser. He mumbled and stumbled. Totally unbelievable acting depth!
The plot was very simple, but really, I was only watching it for Tom Hardy.
Then I watched Venom 2 for Woody Harrelson. He was such a great actor, too. He was one of those actors that could play a good guy or a bad guy. I really liked symbiote strengths and weaknesses were fleshed out, so there was a logical flow to the story. For example, Symbiote couldn't take loud noise, but Carnage's girlfriend was a Shriek mutant. So that relationship was never going to work out.
Can't wait for Venom: The Last Dance (2024)!