Morbius (2022)
3/10
Starring
Jared Leto
Matt Smith
Adria Arjona
Directed by Daniel Espinosa
Morbius is a totally
lazy movie script brought to life. No matter how it looks, this is not the dark
horror tale you might have expected. The movie is so lazily put together, with
a script that lacks any form of creativity. It runs its own race in drafting an
origin story for Michael Morbius, playing freely with the powers of the Living
Vampire. However, this freedom is abused by bad directing, a lack of character
depth, and poor editing.
The film creates its
own villain, with plenty of space to build a compelling story, but instead, it
makes a mess of everything. I think Jared Leto’s portrayal of Morbius was
overly intense for such a weak script, though the colorful performance by Matt
Smith as Milo helped a lot. Beyond that, I feel this was a bad job, done badly.
The bat effects in
the final fight against Milo were anticlimactic. The movie plot starts in a way
we’re somewhat familiar with regarding Morbius: a Nobel Prize-winning biologist
with a rare blood condition. In this Sony version, Morbius has an adopted brother
named Milo, with whom he shares the same blood condition. They met as children
in a hospital wing. While Morbius grew up alone, Milo came from a wealthy
background and, as adults, Milo became Morbius’ benefactor, funding his
experiments to find a cure for their illness.
Morbius eventually
found a potential cure: a fusion of vampire bat DNA with human DNA. He tested
it on himself, and, as you might expect from the comics, things didn’t go as
planned. Morbius woke up hungry and killed everyone in his lab, draining them
of blood, except for his lover, Bancroft, who was knocked out during the chaos.
When Milo learned
what had happened, he asked Morbius to inject him too, but Morbius refused.
Milo then broke into Morbius’ lab, using a nurse to help himself get injected
with the spliced DNA. Like Morbius, Milo became a living vampire, but unlike
Morbius—who struggles to control his urges—Milo embraced the chaos, causing
havoc everywhere. Now, Morbius takes it upon himself to stop Milo.
For me, the movie
tries to ride the success of Sony’s best Marvel attempt so far, Spider-Man:
No Way Home (2021). That film seems to have given Sony some ideas: they
use the liberty caused by Doctor
Strange’s spell to transport characters from the MCU into Sony’s
universe. However, this is limited to characters they have the rights to, which
they hinted at in the end by transporting one of Spider-Man’s villains from the
MCU into Sony’s Spider-Verse.
I regret seeing this movie and hope nobody else has to go through the same struggle.
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