Morbius
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Starring: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson
Release Date: April 1, 2022
My Rating: 3/10 (It’s not 100% irredeemable, but it’s definitely not good)
My Review (with MINOR spoilers, but nothing huge):
Here’s what I liked about Morbius: The cinematography in some scenes was actually really cool, the graphics at the beginning and end of the movie are gorgeous, and the final battle was pretty fun to watch. There’s even a couple of solid jump scares. That’s where the compliments stop.
Usually when it comes to critics vs. audience, I tend to side with the audience - especially with Sony Marvel movies. I loved both the Venom movies. However...Morbius was exactly as bad as the critics have been saying. I saw one review that said something like “this movie feels like it was written by a middle-aged crisis, recently divorced Gen X-er who hadn’t seen a superhero movie since 2002″ and that’s pretty much it. This movie is far from the worst movie I’ve seen...but it is in no way a good movie.
The movie starts out kind of strong and then goes downhill quickly from there. There’s no plot development. There’s not even really a plot? He’s working on a cure to his illness, it backfires, he has to stop his friend who also tried the cure, the end. There’ no plot and there’s no character development either. The characters are all surface level and sooooo boring. Matt Smith’s character was the best part of the movie and even his character was flat and one-dimensional.
Jared Leto overacted and then some, and Matt Smith’s acting was WASTED on this movie. There’s one female character and she’s laid up in the hospital for half the movie, and is in distress every other time she’s on screen. The special effects and makeup that make the guys look like vampires? Laughable. That’s not an exaggeration, I actually laughed. The scene where full-vamp Matt Smith is running towards Leto? They have him run in slow-mo and it goes on so much longer than it needs to that it actually starts to look silly. The special effects are also a bit too campy for the serious tone of the movie.
Overall Takeaway: The trailer was better. The actual movie had no plot, no deep connection to the characters, no concrete ending (seriously, the ending was so dumb, as were the post-credit scenes). The pacing was all over the place. I was on my phone for parts of it because I was so bored. Definitely will not be watching ever again, I’m good.
