Jared Leto Morbius

In a time when onscreen superheroes and super villains are super dynamic and complex than ever,Morbius is little boring of version of itself that it can possibly be- Happy to serve that a narrative that is 100% plot, fail to introduce a single interesting character, and excuse action that is more than murky shadow accented with colorful smoke.

Come to the story.

Jared Lego is a scientistis the eponymous Michael Morbius in the film, a scientist who has long lived with a debilitating blood disorder that he has spent years trying to cure. Working with Dr. Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona) at New York-based Horizon Labs, he hypothesizes about mixing human DNA with that of a vampire bat, believing that the flying rodents’ natural anti-coagulants will be the key to eradicating his disease. After animal testing, he prepares for human trials – which is to say giving himself an injection.

Morbius sees himself as a monster after killing several people, but Milo is purely focused on the cure to the blood disorder, and after taking his own dose, he becomes your standard mirror villain: possessing identical abilities to the hero, but with an antagonistic philosophy.

This zero frills/nothing interesting approach is only made more noticeable by the ideas that it ignores. For example, Morbius has invented an artificial human blood that prevents him from drinking the real stuff, and it’s implied that there is a different effect that it has on him, but it’s never made explicit. It’s also repeatedly said that the efficacy time of what he imbibes is diminishing, and he tracks the progress on his digital watch – but even with that introduced, the film never does anything as compelling as having the protagonist in a race against the clock before he goes full living vampire…

There are references to Venom and Spider-Man peppered in the story. It makes sense since Morbius was associated with these characters in Marvel Comics. But it feels like a bad product placement here. Morbius even attempts to build a larger universe with its multiple post-credits sequences, where it introduces an MCU character. But given how Marvel has perfected the art of making crisp post-credit scenes, Morbius falls flat here too. The scenes feel like a forced effort to connect Morbius to a larger universe. It does not feel organic at all.

One can hope that if the film doesn't have its heart in place, maybe it can make up for that with some visual effects. You'd be sadly mistaken! The odd blur effect used to show Morbius and Milo's heightened senses when they turn vampires distracts from the visuals, and the dark tone doesn't help. The film badly needs a colour correction

Finally the my Review is 3/5