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Venom: The Last Dance is a 2024 American superhero film written and directed by Kelly Marcel, which features the Marvel Comics character Venom. A sequel to Venom and Let There Be Carnage, the fifth film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, and the third and final installment of the Venom trilogy, it stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and Venom, alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Clark Backo, Alanna Ubach and Andy Serkis.

Plot[]

Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote are drunk in a bar in Mexico,[a] still on the run after their recent battle with Carnage.[b] The murder of Patrick Mulligan makes international headlines with Eddie being named the prime suspect, forcing him to set out to New York City and attempt to clear his name.

Unbeknownst to either one of them, a creature known as a Xenophage has begun tracking Eddie and Venom. The recent events catch the attention of Rex Strickland, a soldier who oversees Imperium, a government operation at the site of the soon-to-be-decommissioned Area 51 for the capture and study of other symbiotes that have fallen to Earth. Mulligan, revealed to have survived his encounter with Carnage, is captured after being left for dead by another symbiote who eluded Strickland's soldiers. He is bonded with one of many contained symbiotes and questioned by Imperium researchers Dr. Teddy Payne and Sadie Christmas to learn about the symbiotes' purpose on Earth before Strickland is ordered to bring Venom down.

While attaching themselves onto the side of an airplane bound for New York City, Eddie and Venom are attacked by the Xenophage tracking them and are forced to drop off into a desert field. Venom explains to Eddie that Xenophages were unleashed into the universe by Knull, the creator of the symbiotes, to retrieve a "Codex" forged when a symbiote brings its host back to life, which can free Knull from the prison the symbiotes trapped him in long ago. Because Venom revived Eddie once before,[c] he now carries a Codex that the Xenophage tracked to Earth. After being ambushed by Strickland and his team, barely escaping from them and the Xenophage, Eddie meets Milton and his family of traveling hippie and alien enthusiasts, who offer him a ride to Las Vegas on their way to Area 51. Meanwhile, Mulligan's new symbiote informs Strickland of Knull's true intentions and the role of the Codex, which can only be destroyed if either Eddie or Venom dies.

Arriving in Las Vegas, Eddie and Venom run into Mrs. Chen at a casino and Venom shares a dance with her before being ambushed by the Xenophage again. Strickland's team arrives, separates Venom from Eddie and takes them to Area 51, where Eddie reunites with Mulligan. Sadie frees Venom, who rebonds with Eddie before Strickland plans to execute him. This attracts the Xenophage to the base, killing Mulligan. Venom releases the other confined symbiotes, which bond with Sadie and other hosts, to fight off the Xenophage, who has signaled to Knull the Codex has been found. Knull sends more Xenophages through portals to Earth, overwhelming the symbiotes. Realizing he must sacrifice himself to destroy the Codex and save the universe, Venom merges with the Xenophages, leads them to acid tanks and bids Eddie farewell before ejecting him, as a mortally wounded Strickland sets off his grenades to destroy them. Payne bonds with a symbiote to save Sadie from the explosion while Eddie falls unconscious as the base burns.

Eddie later wakes up in a hospital, where a military official informs him his heroic actions with Venom at Area 51 earned Eddie a pardon under the condition of keeping the events that transpired a secret. Arriving in New York City, Eddie gazes at the Statue of Liberty while remembering Venom.

In a mid-credits scene, Knull declares that the universe is no longer safe from him, while in a post-credits scene, a bartender escapes from the burned remains of Area 51 in a panic as a black cockroach crawls from the rubble.

Cast[]

  • Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor as General Rex Strickland
  • Juno Temple as Dr. Teddy Paine/Agony
  • Rhys Ifans as Martin Moon
  • Stephen Graham as Detective Patrick Mulligan/Green Symbiote
  • Peggy Lu as Mrs. Chen
  • Clark Backo as Sadie Christmas/Lasher
  • Alanna Ubach as a Nova Moon
  • Cristo Fernández as Bartender
  • Jared Abrahamson as Captain Forrest
  • Hala Finley as Echo Moon
  • Dash McCloud as Leaf Moon
  • Andy Serkis as Knull
  • Reid Scott as Dr. Dan Lewis
  • Jack Brady as Jim
  • Ivo Nandi as a Javier
  • Jake Allyn as Las Vegas Security Guard
  • Otis Winston as Donald the Security Guard
  • Jacob Tomuri as Tuxedo Guy
  • Brooke Carter as Young Teddy Paine
  • Fflyn Edwards as Thaddeus Paine
  • Elijah Cook as Area 51 Soldier
  • Norma Butikofer as Woman on Plane
  • Elizabeth Cook as Keli Reule
  • Angie Hsu as Army Medic
  • Martin McDougall as The General

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Sony's Spider-Man Universe
Venom (2018), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Morbius (2022), Kraven the Hunter (2023), Madame Web (2024), El Muerto (2024), Venom 3
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