Venom
Venom is a character from Spider-Man, but Spider-Man is no where to be seen. This movie happens mostly in San Francisco.
Our bad guy is rather obviously Elon Musk - how the tide is turned on that poor guy - who is out to explore space for future colonization. He sends a rocket to a comet, and it brings back four life forms, which he somehow intuits are symbiots just looking for an earth host. Meanwhile our Elon character thinks the earth is doomed 'cause of global warming and over population. I agree with the second half of that, the earth's population *will* come under control and it appears it will not be pretty. Anyway, our ?hero? gets ahold of one of the symbiots, or perhaps I have that backwards, and he turns into Venom, a super, um, well a super something. Then the action starts.
The acting is good for a movie like this. The dialog is so-so, as are the plot and special effects. This movie is about as good as one of the hulk movies, call it B-, and remember I love this stuff. I don't think this is an $11 movie. There are a couple after-scenes, one of which sets up the next Venom movie. The second sets up the spider-verse movie, which looks to be very weird. Sony is just desperate to cash in on their properties, and so far they're just not a blazing success story.
This movie is extremely multi-cultural, as is the Bay Area. The credits about 2/3 read like a phone book from somewhere in India - hindus, sikhs, jains, muslims, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and some others I didn't recognize just by name. Silicon Valley is taking all the brightest kids from all over the world and doing some really incredible stuff with them. And leaving behind a bunch of third world countries drained of their best and brightest.
