Venom, the Protecting Saint of Investigative Journalism (Review)
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** What you get here: three reasons why Venom may be worth seeing, spoiler-free. Plus, after those three points, some observations about the plot (those are not spolier-free). 1. Hardly enough in and of itself, but still... Hardy! This is not a European movie. It doesn't even have European settings (the plot starts off in space, Malaysia is implicated, and then we're off to San Francisco and the Bay Area). But it has Tom Hardy, one of our own, I mean, speaking from the point of view of a good European patriot... Hardy didn't stay put in Europe for too long in his life, of course. He made his leap into the big unknown at just about the right time. He abandoned his studies at the Drama Centre at University of the Arts London because he was given the chance to play in Black Hawk Down . He had his ups and downs since, some of them self-made, but ...