Directed by:
Daniel EspinosaCinematography:
Oliver WoodComposer:
Jon EkstrandCast:
Jared Leto, Adria Arjona, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson, Michael Keaton, Charlie Shotwell, Corey Johnson, Archie Renaux (more)VOD (4)
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A biochemist with a rare blood disease in search of a cure injects himself with a dangerous serum that gives him super strength and a thirst for blood. (Netflix)
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While it doesn't match the qualities of its MCU neighbors (but it's better than Black Widow and not much worse than the first Doctor Strange), Morbius is definitely better than both Venom movies combined, and that's mostly because of the characters. It’s a shame that they didn’t go further with the horror, because with this film and this protagonist they could have afforded it. I like that the trailers I saw didn't give everything away and actually kept the villain completely hidden until the theater, for example. And while he's not a great villain, he's a good one, and his motivations are presented in a fairly believable way, though in a slightly limited space. The action scenes aren't many, but they are there, and they don't turn into a cluttered mess thanks to slowing down time at the right moments. Jared Leto made a good impression on me in the lead role, I trusted the headstrong hero who refuses to give up his humanity. For me it was nothing ground-breaking, but a pleasant and inoffensive film, where, unlike the aforementioned Venom, I didn't have to be ashamed of what on earth I was watching.
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Honestly, did anyone expect Morbius to be a good movie? The trailers didn't suggest anything of the sort, and after how Venom turned out, it's not a bad thing to be wary when it comes to Sony comic book movies. So talking about disappointment wouldn't make much sense, the film exactly as crappy as most of us probably expected. Like Venom, Morbius feels like a comic book movie from the days when Ben Affleck as Daredevil and Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider were goofing around in theaters. Simple entertainment with a simple story, realistically about six characters, no surprises, no ideas and nothing worth paying attention to. Moreover, Jared Leto is no Tom Hardy and while he doesn't spoil anything here, his Morbius simply isn't an interesting character, but that's more the fault of the writers who occasionally try to bite on some attractive themes, anti-heroics and a potentially interesting relationship between the main character and the villain. In the end, however, they ignore all that and serve up a boring film that has nothing to offer in real terms. And when they start to try for some kind of bigger story at the end, it still doesn't work. Oh, and the vampire faces are pretty ugly.
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I am Manbat! Jared Leto in a strange variation on a dime-a-dozen Spiderman baddie & unknown Batman baddie is seriously bad. The senseless decisions, unclear motives and questionable rules for the functioning of this entire newly created universe are pitiful. The idiotic screenplay manages even to kill any potentially intriguing storylines and the nicely set up hero/baddie relationship is destroyed unexpectedly amateurishly. The obviously heavily cut ending with the footage of Keaton indicates that Morbius is for teenagers and movie consumers who don’t like to use their minds.
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After the Venom movies, Sony Pictures continue chasing twenty-year-old cinematic dead ends, wishing to make sales only by sticking the popular Marvel brand name all over their product. However, if you strip this brand away from Morbius, you are left with the equivalent of all the cheesy direct-to-video vampire rubbish with bad actors and even worse special effects they used to release back in the day that flooded the cheaply produced DVD market around the year 2000 after the success of Blade. Few people were interested back then and no one is really interested now. At best, Morbius is just a bland, oft-seen comic book origin story with only the simplest conceivable plot. At its worst, it is a total cringefest with special effects and CGI reminiscent of a pixel holocaust. Uwe Boll would have approved.
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Dilemmas of dying men in a pleasant spirit and pace, which paradoxically undermine almost all genre comic efforts. I liked the project for quite a long time, until everything went wrong. All events take place in an unpleasant twilight, the effects have at best variable quality, the main hero flies in front of a subway train, everything is commented by the incapable, gruff, and fantastically inappropriately cast duo of detectives, I don't believe in the love story for a second, I cringe awkwardly at the lines - and the worst comes at the very end. Subtitle scenes, trying to situate the whole story in a spider's world. At that moment, not a single event or word makes sense and the script cleverly ridicules the viewer who tried to take the development of the titular character at least a bit seriously.
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