Morbius movie review

MOVIE TITLE: Morbius

This new addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now playing in theaters

RATING: PG-13

LENGTH: 1 hour 44 minutes

IN A NUTSHELL:

Snore. The problem with this movie is that it takes itself extremely seriously. It’s about a biochemist named Michael Morbius who tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but instead, he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism.

It hurts my heart to give a Marvel movie a bad grade because I’m normally such a huge fan, but I just couldn’t get into this one. It’s directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.

Marvel is magic, but Sony didn’t capture it this time around.

THINGS I LIKED:

I really like Jared Leto and am sincerely happy for him to be given this comic book character to bring to life. He’s extremely talented and really works hard to introduce us to this interesting character.
Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, and Al Madrigal flesh out the cast and all do a fine job.
The New York City scenes were actually filmed in Manchester, England. Weird, right? They had to change all of the street signs and license plates and could have saved some time if they had just filmed in the Big Apple. They also did that in the movie Captain America: The First Avenger.
Marvel fans will be able to spot a lot of Easter eggs and tie-ins from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Watch Matt Smith’s character carefully and you’ll even spot some similarities to Jim Carrey’s character in the movie The Mask.
There are some cool special effects.

THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:

The plot wanders around. Snore. I just didn’t care about the characters or the story.
The constant beating score is heavy-handed and exhausting.
There’s some action, but mostly a lot of smoldering anger and talking.
Lots of CGI and not much we haven’t already seen a million times before.
So much exposition.
The characters are thin and underdeveloped.
Spiderman? Venom? They both capture the whimsical humor needed to balance out the serious drama. Morbius completely forgot about that successful formula.
The movie isn’t that long but feels like it. I was bored within minutes.
The fighting and action scenes are just a big jumbled mess so that you can’t really see what’s happening.