Especially after Deadpool & Wolverine, the way The Last Dance basically gives the multiverse the middle finger is kind of refreshing and makes it feel like Sony and Marcel — who also wrote the first two Venom films — are trying to stay in a very specific lane, similar to Madame Web ’s.

Venom: The Last Dance currently has a very poor 37% on Rotten Tomatoes across 71 critics. Very, very bad. But…this is Venom. And people love Venom,

The wildly successful Marvel series from Sony is a trio of comic book movies featuring Tom Hardy’s take on journalist Eddie Brock and his sassy symbiote sidekick.

The Last Dance is spoiler-free. When Ruben Fleischer‘s Venom was released in 2018, comic book fans were confused that Sony Pictures actually went through with creating an origin film centered on one of Spider-Man’s biggest foes without the hero at all.

Venom: The Last Dance isn’t a hit with critics. The last movie in Tom Hardy’s Venom trilogy is currently one of the lowest-scoring superhero films of the year. Right now, Venom: The Last Dance has just 38% on Rotten Tomatoes after 68 reviews,

It’s not a high bar – and yet, it’s still one that director Kelly Marcel’s Venom: The Last Dance manages to limbo beneath. Expectations should not be excessive going into the film; the ineptitude of Andy Serkis’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage following Ruben Fleischer’s Venom taught that particular lesson (not to mention Sony’s baffling and dreadful other efforts at expanding its Spider-Man Minus Spider-Man franchise).