After a long three year wait and the unending dread of seeing the trailer for the 1000th time before the latest releases, Sony Pictures Morbius has arrived.
Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but when his experiment goes wrong, he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
Much like the vampire Jared Leto portrays in Morbius the whole film simply sucks the life out of you in a unending torrent of messy CGi, terrible dialogue and confusing plotting. Was it worth the three year wait? Not really. Morbius isn’t really what you would call a hero / anti-hero you’d want to root for. Twilight this isn’t. Who Morbius is aimed at, is somewhat a mystery too.
Obviously one changes have been made due to releases that have happened since the original Morbius release date, most notably Spider-Man: No Way Home, but all that manages to do is inject even more confusion and head scratching during the post credit scenes.
Matt Smith seems to be having a blast though and he is the only thing about Morbius that makes the entire proceedings worth sitting through, although the cut and paste plotting (No development just one CGi bat sequence to another, then fin.) , and short run time make this a hard task at time as well. Tyreese Gibson is wasted in a run of the mill FBI agent, Adria Arjona deserves better too. It’s an entire cluster bomb of a movie that looks like it’s been chopped to pieces thrown up in the air like a game of 52 pick-up and then just taped back together.
For a vampire film the most scary thing about it is that it was green-lit for release. And what the corridor scene with the motion lights was all about? Who walks up a corridor like that without turning the lights on? And why leave the light switch at the far end of the corridor. This is the least of Morbius problems too. But at least Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World aren’t at the bottom of the pile when it comes to Marvel movies anymore. Morbius now sits quite happily in the second from bottom spot. (Fan4stic is the very bottom if you must know)
With what Sony are suggesting in the cut scenes, we can only but hope it doesn’t happen, simply because it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, but we will no doubts have to wait and see the success of Kraven to determine that outcome.
Morbius is in cinemas Nationwide now.
