It is mostly right to describe Morbius as an unnecessary addition to comic book movies. The dominant type of entertainment in the world, comic book films have long been a part of the conversations of movie enthusiasts. However, there may be a film or two that does not quite live up to the standards of DC movies or the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe. Morbius is an inert combination of iffy ideas and a film that does not have the best things about the two Venom films in the Spider-Man Universe of Sony.
The film has Michael Morbius, a mechanical engineer cum geneticist who has long been living on the brink of death due to an inexplicable hematological disorder. The condition is perhaps related tocoagulants, but those do not explain, using the images of frail kids attached to machines will make the audience understand what the film says.
Morbius finally finds something that possibly saves his life as well as the lives of the bedridden kids who appear whenever the movie needs uneasiness and his longtime benefactor/friend Milo. Morbius has bats in big tubes that he can use as the source for the DNA that he needs to solve the condition. Morbius wishes to be like Jeff Goldblum from The Fly movie, but in the form of a hero. He might be a frail model whom computer graphics control as the plot of the movie becomes shaky.
The Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor for the movie Dallas Buyers Club is still the worst possible thing that happened to actor Jared Leto. It has changed Leto’s judgment and philosophy with regard to performance. Leto has been trying things for films, whether it be his take on the character of Paolo Gucci for House of Gucci or the noxiously terrible Joker for Suicide Squad.
However, the issue with Morbius, the character, and the movie, is that it never allows the audience to escape the reality that Leto is too good for this material. This makes a gap that derails Morbius from becoming anything except for a film that makes little progress in its 105-minute running time. The expected, shockingly lazy, and perfunctory mid-credit sequences might be neon signs that flash and tell the audience to look at something important. However, even those scenes promise advancements in the Marvel division of Sony that do not even have the slightest piece of promise or heft.
As for Sony, there is at least Tom Hardy playing the role of Eddie to redeem Venom, the movie, alongside the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The audience cares about those kinds of things more nowadays.
You cannot imagine Leto’s character being in the same movie as any of the Spidermen versions as his conflicts are engineered to cause him to be an antihero. While that is an acceptable approach, it fails to mesh with what we have got from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. If you remember Suicide Squad, Joker could fit in with the purview of that movie’s MVP, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). Similarly, House of Gucci turned into a piece of scientific exercise in which every single lead actor came from a different film.
Leto is now at a point in his film career in which he has become similar to Edward Norton in that he cannot perform as well with other actors as possible. It is a skill that today’s comic book movies require more than every other skill.
That said, Morbius the movie is still not a total write-off. It would not help if you have already been to a theater to watch a movie such as ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’. It is a vibrant and imaginative science-fiction/adventure film that thrives on multiple viewings and analysis.
The opening credits and end credits of Morbius have the most advanced form of bisexual lighting. In some scenes, Jared Harris makes things considerably interesting, including with Matt Smith who becomes a meditation on vampire respectability discourse. It seems like the audience has a real idea to chew on for the first time only when Harris and Smith appear together in the film.
Morbius has trippy effects with weird kinesis that beseeches 3D and many swirly lights. It may be Leto’s responsibility to hold the film together, but the actor fails to live up to the task.
As an audience member, one cannot help but focus on whatever Smith’s Milo does in the movie. Smith has survived sweaty situations and dodgy computer graphics as well as emerged victorious through a generous feeling of spirit and some charisma. It is the reason why Smith belongs to the more memorable parts of the movie. Smith has long been among the most instantly recognizable faces in fantasy and science-fiction universes. Despite that, major movies can only have roles such as Charles Manson, a computer software program, or an artistic pimp for Smith.
Smith seems to be just going with the flow and makes Milo a character that brings the movie to life whenever he is on screen. However, it happens too few and far between and does not help to elevate the overall quality of the movie. Nevertheless, Morbius may make a lot of money from the theaters in Nashville and elsewhere. Someone from Sony should send Hardy a basket of fruits as the actor does much of the laborious or burdensome duty for its Spider-Man Universe.