Like those aforementioned pedestrian efforts, the production is visually captivating and all spectacle, just enough to dazzle the senses while mesmerizing long-time fans with a live-action adaptation that ironically feels faithful to the comics. Heck, even Howard the Duck musters some silly, entertaining fun with its badness, but Fleischer's vision of Spider-Man's formidable nemesis is a rather boisterously chaotic mess that only looks pretty on the surface. That's right! For me, Venom (2018) ranks alongside the likes of Daredevil, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, X-Men: The Last Stand and the ridiculous X-Men Origins: Wolverine. No, I'm referring to Fleischer making a superhero movie that's on par, if not worse, than Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, and arguably one of the most average Marvel flicks of recent memory. ![]() Zombielanddirector Ruben Fleischer pulls off a stunning miracle in Venom (2018), and I'm not only talking about the comic-book villain achieving shocking box-office success.
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