Morbius

Morbius

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.

  • Released: 2022-03-30
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Horror
  • Stars: Jared Leto, Adria Arjona, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal, Michael Keaton, Charlie Shotwell, Bern Collaço, Tina Louise Owens, Tom Forbes, Amanda Perez, Archie Renaux, Abraham Popoola, Corey Johnson, Crystal Wingx, Michael Keaton, Ruth Horrocks, Kadrolsha Ona Carole, Clara Rosager, Barry Aird, Colin Blyth, Gloria García, Bentley Kalu, Atul Sharma, Dave Simon, Kalle Hennie, Adam El Hagar, Chris Ryman, Manoj Anand, Nick Owenford, Joseph Harinsky, George Symmans, Oliver Truman, Zaris-Angel Hator, Joe Ferrara, Joseph Esson, Jason Rennie, Aryan Moaven, Christopher Louridas, Oliver Bodur, Rolan Bell, Joanna Burnett, Fermin Galeano, Maia Scalia, Jojo Macari, Apphia Campbell, Jay Gomez-Adams
  • Director: Daniel Espinosa
 Comments
  • drewvogelaar - 11 January 2023
    Its Morbin Time Baby
    I saw this as soon as it was released. What interested me the most was all the hate it was getting online. I also dislike Jared Leto as an actor, so my expectations were as low as they could be. I'd love to say that the hate wasn't warranted. I'd also like to say that Suicide Squad (2016) wasn't made, but it was. It did become the first film to bomb at the box office twice. So I wasn't the only one who was disappointed. I really tried to remain optimistic about this. I just couldn't take it seriously.

    To say this was bad is an understatement. Morbius has a mixture of problems that make it terrible. The acting of Jared Leto as Morbius is something that I've come to expect from him. This is definitely one of his career-worst roles. Leto is known as a "Method Actor." Someone who becomes very immersed in his roles. His role in Dallas Buyers Club was amazing. He also isn't a terrible actor by any means. He's just an actor who takes some ridiculous roles. Leto wasn't even the worst part; that was the CGI. The CGI in this is egregiously terrible. For an over 80 million dollar budget, you would expect CGI that doesn't look like 50 bucks. Its lowest point was the fight scenes between Michael and Milo. My final criticism would be of the post-credit scene. Michael Keaton reprises his role of Vulture for the multiple post-credit scenes. I was confused because it doesn't add much to the story and it would have been easier to explain this in a sequel than in a thirty-second post-credit scene. This film wasn't without some merits. It was unintentionally hilarious. Between the acting and CGI, I found myself constantly laughing. Overall a bad film with few redeeming qualities.

    2.5/10 A marvel property so absurd it falls it almost falls into the category of it "so bad it's good."
  • Alfonzo_Q - 27 December 2022
    Outstanding . . . Emotional . . . Timeless
    What is there to say about Morbius? Here are a few things: I have never felt so deeply connected to another character in cinema. Perhaps no one has. From the moment I saw his morbtastic face, I felt as though I had known him my whole life. We grew up together. We laughed together. We cried together. We sung songs of tulips and daisies, arms interlocked, skipping down the streets like a couple of schoolgirls together. Morbius took me on an emotional rollercoaster I will never recover from, and with years of intensive therapy, I'm sure I'll come to forgive him.

    The next topic to cover in this masterpiece of a film is the story. It twists, it turns, it twists again, and when you expect a turn, it does just that. It took my bare expectations and it met them with flying colours. Move aside Spielberg, the real moviemakers are in town. Morbius broke all the rules, and then re-wrote them . . . Just to break them a second time, but who can blame him? Morbius follows no rules, bows to no king, follows no Geneva Convention. He just does something, anything, and you respond with: "alright."

    My final note is on the production as a whole. The effects were so groundbreaking, I forgot I was watching a movie at all. The score gently caressed my mind, enhancing the more emotional or tense moments of the film, but never interfered. The thought put into the background of each of the characters felt as though we were looking into a real scene, with real people doing real things, and when the movie ended, I had absolutely no unanswered questions. I only had one thing in mind: "it's Morbin' time."

    Truly, Morbius is a movie like no other, and may Morbius live on forever in our hearts. Morbius' legacy will outlast humanity, and as our sun swells into a supermassive red star, swallowing the solar system, there will only be Morbius left, the way it was meant to be.

    Morb score: 1 Morbillion/10.