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).

Tom Hardy is back and playing dual roles, as Eddie Brock and the title alien entity, in superhero movie "Venom: The Last Dance."

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.

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.

"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.