The SciFi channel is awesome. They crank out lower budget flicks with pretty much the same theme:

Something bad happens + Someone saves the day = Happy Ending 

There are variables in this formula such as the bad guy, the good guy, the disaster, etc. For the most part, though, they are enjoyable. They don't rise to the level of being great, but that's ok.

Path of Destruction is one of those movies where you assemble an affordable cast, throw in some cut rate special effects and have at it. The plot is easy to follow. A nasty corporation developed a nanoprobe weapon for the United States, but the United States cut off funding. The corporation was supposed to store the nanoprobes in an offshore oil rig and leave them dormant. They didn't. They continued development and planned on selling them to the Chinese. Yes, the Chinese have now become the Russians in any bad guy movie.  

There is a truism in the movie making business that if there are black people in a horror movie they are killed first . This is true with Venom, a horror movie that could have been better than it is.

Venom takes place in Louisiana, that hotbed of voodoo. Voodoo seems to play an important role in this film, but you would never know it by the silly way it deals with rituals. I guess this is because the movie is based on a story idea that's going to become a video game. You got that right. It's a movie based on an unreleased video game. Usually they put the game out then go to the movie. Not this time.