Short version: Do you like melodrama? Yes? Then do I have a movie for you.
Slightly longer version: see above, with the caveat that I do not mean ‘melodrama’ as a pejorative. VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE is almost operatic, in its way, and that’s not actually bad. The characters and scenery* are extravagant in their portrayal, with rejection and struggle and unrequited and/or endless love and all the rest of it, and if you’re into that sort of thing, it’s a pretty good movie. If you’re not, well, there’s a lot of loud and messy action. Which is nice, too.
Plus, there are chickens.
Moe Lane
*Some of which may or may not have been literally chewed.
Chickens? I’m in.