The Last Dance." Credit: Sony Pictures While Eddie/Venom are making their way out of Mexico, a new cranky villain lurks in a dark otherworld, surrounded by giant insect monsters with many, many teeth.

"Venom: The Last Dance," in theaters Friday, follows a tonally inconsistent franchise with a supposed conclusion that leans on the least fun aspects of the series.

The final part of the Venom trilogy is an uncoordinated mess of scenes that seems to have been lazily slapped together, writes our reviewer.

You’re either on Venom’s wavelength or you’re not. If you are, you’re not alone, because as it turns out, a lot of folks are. The wildly successful Marvel series from Sony comprises a triptych of strangely appealing comic book movies featuring Tom Hardy’s take on journalist Eddie Brock and his sassy symbiote sidekick,

The Last Dance. Venom: The Last Dance closes the chapter for Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom, but the movie is opening up new stories for other symbiote including the biggest and baddest villain of the Sony Spider-Man universe: Knull.

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.” Maybe I simply can’t help but be drawn into any film featuring “12 Years a Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor.