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TLDR: See it if you just want to finish the Venom movies, pass if you could take them or leave them.

I frikkin LOVE Venom, and the first one was OK. Then we got Carnage, which was just forgettable. And finally, we get "The Last Dance" - which is equally forgettable but sprinkles in a lack of flow and a very clunky plot that seems to forget what it just did only to create new "rules" for the characters.

The lack of flow is obvious from the very beginning, when things seem to happen for no reason, or with no build up, or characters appear to have escaped situations and travel for distances without us seeing how they did so. It's direction like this that breaks the immersion that movies used to pride themselves on catching you with in the past.

I won't go into all the problems, it's been done in other reviews. But the one shining star is Tom. He plays the best washed up drunk parasite host in the business, and they couldn't have cast a better guy to do it. Venom's lines could have been better, and Tom's depths of depression could have been better, but you work with what you got and it's hard to polish a turd.

Overall I will say, go see it if you like the Venom stories and can swallow the bad directing just to finish the story line, but if you're really not a Venom fan, save your dough.

Maybe we'll all win and Tom will return for one last, last time (the story leaves this as a possibility) in an Avengers movie directed by someone with vision and written by someone with talent.

I need to start this by saying I'm not a Lohan fan - at all. I thought she was a mediocre actress and a horrible person.

However.... This movie hits! It's a bit of a cheese fest with the magical ensemble, but definitely worth a watch.

The story starts out slow and dull, and you'll want to turn it off, but trust me, wait until 10 minutes after they get to Ireland and it picks up from there.

Even though you know how it's going to end, the journey is wacky and entertaining. As it says in the Farmer's Almanac, "If I man could have half his wishes, he'd double his trouble"

So if you're in the mood for a fun rom-com with a little seasoning, fire up the popcorn maker and press play! You'll be glad you did.