Morbius

I'm not sure anyone expected Jared Leto's Morbius to be some sort of MCU-level critical hit, but now that the reviews are in for the blockbuster, Morbius is ...

It’s really strange situation and while sometimes it’s worked out well enough (Venom!), Morbius may be a sign of a slate of pretty awful movies to come, unless they can figure out a way to make these relatively obscure villains work onscreen. So as you can see, this is some truly rarified air. Here’s how it stacks up to some truly terrible classics:

Jared Leto plays the Marvel antihero 'Morbius' in this poorly-made action thriller.

And “Morbius” might be the worst-looking of them all. The bloody incident grabs the attention of detectives Stroud (Tyrese Gibson) and Rodriguez (Al Madrigal), who come to suspect Morbius in a string of murders. It’s a shocking problem in “Morbius” considering editor Pietro Scalia’s past award-winning work on “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down.” Why is Espinosa so afraid to show blood or gore? Smith rises above the film, moving with a lanky, unencumbered energy not unlike his “Doctor Who” days. Unlike “Blade Runner 2049” or “The Little Things,” where he could float through scenes as a blank villain, Morbius requires pathos, a layer deeply lacking in Leto’s range. The scrubbing in “Morbius” starts with a flashback to 25 years earlier. Daniel Espinosa’s “Morbius,” a misbegotten, artistically bankrupt bid by writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to fuse a gothic horror edge to the MCU, is the nadir of comic book cinema. The slow motion and jump scare editing, mixed with plumes of black smoke, aims for frights, but only manages to stitch together a smattering of incomprehensible images. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, the titular villain, sometimes anti-hero, sprung from the pages of “The Amazing Spider-Man” in 1971, imbuing the webslinger’s universe with a supernatural grittiness. Espinosa, unfortunately, is so beholden to the timbre of mass entertainment, he struggles to provide his film with the necessary bloodlust, brutality and frights to rise above a snore. So as Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), a brooding biochemist living with a blood disease, sways with the assistance of crutches getting off the helicopter, the mystery of his story is moot. It’s no secret the desperate lengths contemporary movies, especially of the comic book variety, rely on VFX to do a film’s emotional heavy lifting.

As Marvel movies go, "Morbius" is more a sip than a gulp, a relatively small-boned Jekyll-and-Hyde tale that moves another Spider-Man villain into the ...

) from a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, "Morbius" has ample company in the world of tortured antiheroes and villains whose well-intentioned scientific goals go terribly wrong. But the material is too anemic, frankly, to contemplate spreading its wings much beyond that. , the timing of the film's arrival merely underscores Jared Leto's range, from this living vampire to an entrepreneurial vampire in "WeCrashed"

Morbius star, one of the Sony movies linked to its universe of live-action Spider-Man films, stars Jared Leto and arrives in theaters Friday.

If it is released to stream within the six months that Deadline reported, No Way Home would arrive on Starz before early August. No Way Home was released in late 2021, and Sony has an agreement in place for its 2021 movies to go to the premium cable network Starz first, not Netflix. But Netflix never charges any additional fees to watch anything in its library, and Morbius will be part of the standard catalog like everything else.

The latest hero from Marvel is hard to explain. He's a man and yet also a bat. No, not Batman. Let me try again: He's a daywalking vampire, but, no, ...

He just has to ignore moments like when Morbius is chained to a desk in a police department’s interview room and says: “I’m starting to get hungry and you don’t want to see me when I’m hungry.” There will be a lot of debate over where “Morbius” sits in the Marvel canon. For some reason, whenever he leaps, he is enveloped by a viscous cloud. He also seems to be able to turn into a bat and fly but why he hasn't flapped his way out of this film is unfathomable. What's astonishing is that despite a whole movie, we know very little about Morbius. He is so principled that he turns down a Nobel Prize but perfectly OK slaughtering henchmen. He's a man and yet also a bat.

Matt Smith co-stars as Morbius' friend Milo, while Adria Arjona is Dr. Martine Bancroft, Jared Harris is Dr. Nicholas, Tyrese Gibson is FBI Agent Simon Stroud, ...

What Morbius will do in the long-term, though, will likely be answered in a sequel. In his own universe, Toomes was a villain – but in the Sony-verse, he could be seeking a fresh start. That's most likely because it references the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home – where Spider-Man was accused of killing Mysterio – and Morbius does not actually take place in the MCU (perhaps the plan changed at some stage in Morbius' development, though that remains unclear). How exactly he ended up in the Sony-verse is a mystery. Agents Stroud and Rodriguez hunt Morbius throughout the film, and are on the scene of his final showdown with Milo. When Morbius bursts out from underground and flies away in a swarm of bats, they stand and watch – and that's the last we see of them. Morbius believes the anti-coagulants in vampire bat saliva could help cure the disease – but ends up turning himself into a vampire instead. Milo believes Nicholas always favored Morbius and says that Nicholas pitied him before – and is repulsed by him now. As for why Milo has no problem with killing people, he says that, for their whole lives, he and Morbius have lived with death – so others can know how it feels for a change. During the final fight with Milo, a swarm of bats comes to Morbius' aid and holds Milo down. Both Milo and Morbius suffer from a rare blood disease, though it's given no name in the movie. With the help of Dr. Martine Bancroft, Morbius creates an antibody – one that will kill any "vampire" he injects with it. We've rounded up every single question you could possibly have on the Morbius ending, from what Vulture is doing in the Sony-verse to the fate of the main characters.

The latest hero from Marvel is hard to explain. He's a man and yet also a bat. No, not Batman. Let me try again: He's a daywalking vampire, but, no, ...

There will be a lot of debate over where “Morbius” sits in the Marvel canon. He just has to ignore moments like when Morbius is chained to a desk in a police department’s interview room and says: “I’m starting to get hungry and you don’t want to see me when I’m hungry.” What's astonishing is that despite a whole movie, we know very little about Morbius. He is so principled that he turns down a Nobel Prize but perfectly OK slaughtering henchmen. The filmmakers — director Daniel Espinosa, hobbled by a meandering script from Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless — simply do not know what to do with this creature once they've given us his backstory. He also seems to be able to turn into a bat and fly but why he hasn't flapped his way out of this film is unfathomable. So confused is the film's execution that it more closely resembles a horror movie than a superhero flick.

Is "Morbius" a good vampire film? Actually, yes.

This movie could have used more of that levity, but instead feels like a straight-faced "Doctor Strange," bogged down in mystical mumbo-jumbo without the release of the occasional wi-fi joke. Every comic book film needs a villain, and although Morbius is about as anti-hero as a hero can get, he does (try to) not kill people and he does (try to) not turn others into vampires. Setting aside franchises like the "Blade" and "Twilight" films and small outliers like "Let the Right One In," most cinematic vampiric tales of the past couple decades have been uninspired public domain duds, from "Dracula 2000" to "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" to "Daybreakers" and "John Carpenter's Vampires." As presented in this film, Morbius is a character who "invents" vampirism to save his life, one who opens a Pandora's box and then is forced to deal with its consequences, desperately sucking down bags of artificial blood to keep his hunger at bay, but smart enough to know he can't keep it up. But while Morbius will make it clear later in the film that words like "vampires" and "Dracula" are within the realm of his awareness, he clearly hasn't learned any lessons from such stories. But as destined as it seems to be set aside, sneered at and — even worse — unsequelized, this is also the sort of film you might catch late one night in a decade or two and realize it isn't as bad as everyone remembers. Which is a shame, because there are some very interesting elements afoot in this depiction of Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto). After a spooky opening in a cave filled with vampire bats, we flash back 25 years prior to meet the future "living vampire" as a child, dependent on regular blood transfusions to stay alive.

Morbius tries to set up a cinematic universe to rival the MCU, alienating the audience in the process.

Considering how tightly controlled and perfectly calibrated the MCU is, it’s pretty astonishing that Sony has managed to hijack it for its own ends, confusing fans of both franchises. Morbius also has no reason to dislike Spider-Man - in fact, it’s not clear if Spidey even exists in this universe. The second scene sees Morbius driving down a highway, then getting out of his car to meet Vulture, who is now equipped with his high-tech jetpack suit.

Jared Leto's superhero film will be released in theaters on Friday, April 1, introducing a new antihero to the Sony Spider-Man universe.

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Morbius' Rotten Tomatoes score clocks in as the worst Sony's Spider-Man Universe movie yet as critics slam the droll and dated effort.

When compared to both of Tom Hardy's Venom movies, which garnered 30 percent and 58 percent approval ratings respectively, Morbius' Rotten Tomatoes score makes it the worst Sony's Spider-Man Universe movie yet. Leto stars in Morbius as the titular scientist suffering from a rare blood disorder who elects to afflict himself with a form of transgenic vampirism in the hopes of curing it. Morbius' Rotten Tomatoes score clocks in as the worst Sony's Spider-Man Universe movie yet as critics slam the droll and dated effort.

'Morbius' has connections to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that sets up a Spider-Man showdown, but the scenes are puzzling.

There’s maybe a Peter Parker, but if there is he’s not Spider-Man. That doesn’t stop Vulture from name-dropping him like a LinkedIn contact, and somehow Morbius is immediately into the idea of beating him up. The second scene, which could also be mistaken for a luxury car commercial starring Jared Leto, has Morbius drive to a remote area. During the multiversal fracturing, Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) ends up in the Morbius/Venom universe. That last part is important, because here’s where the Morbius scene stops making sense. There are no scenes after the credits, but stick around to acknowledge the hard-working industry employees who deserved better than having to make Morbius. Yes, Morbius has two credits scenes.

An analysis of the two mid-credits (or post-credits) scenes in Marvel and Sony's latest Spider-Man spinoff Morbius, starring Jared Leto as Dr. Michael ...

All we can say for sure is that nothing in either mid-credits scene contradicts No Way Home, and there is clearly more to this story and the rules of the multiverse that we’ll hopefully see explained across future films. No Way Home’s post-credits scene may have already hinted at a flaw in the spell, given that when Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is transported back to his world, a piece of the Venom symbiote gets left behind in the MCU. So clearly, not every living creature who was aware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man got sent back. The question of how Toomes was transported from the MCU to the SSU has puzzled some viewers, since Strange’s spell at the end of No Way Home supposedly only reverted the villains who had breached the multiverse back to their original dimensions. We just don’t know yet; as Strange tells Peter (Tom Holland) in No Way Home, “The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.” The same goes for Marvel’s rules on magic. I don’t know how I got here … something to do with Spider-Man. I’m thinking of putting a team together. The anchor reports that a hearing has been set, which “could likely lead to his immediate release.” Toomes is then escorted into a police car by several officers.

It is, in fact, the worst of the year so far. It has no redeeming qualities, from Jared Leto's monotonous, derivitive Blade rip-off — ah yes, another ...

It is, in fact, the worst of the year so far. Now, characters from each distinct brand can come into conflict — a new variant of Iron Man, for example, or Patrick Stewart’s twice-dead Professor X, or indeed three Spider-Men — the toys being mashed together by conglomerates desperate to milk as much as they can from an insatiable audience of foamy-mouthed fanboys. It has no redeeming qualities, from Jared Leto's monotonous, derivitive Blade rip-off — ah yes, another embarassing performance from the prince of prosthetics — to its absolute lack of formal imagination, inventive plotting, or technical acuity.

Morbius, Sony's latest Marvel film based on a Spider-Man villain following Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, does very little to mimic Tom Hardy's ...

(If it wasn’t, someone probably would have asked him to say “human/bat chimera” out loud, and re-consider whether the experiment was a good idea.) With the help of colleague and love interest Dr. Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), Morbius “accidentally” turns himself into a Living Vampire — basically a regular vampire, but without the traditional church allergies. Morbius is what happens when there’s a studio desire for another Venom, but without much thought as to how Venom connected with anyone. Dr. Morbius, we’re told, is one of the world’s foremost scientific minds, having developed a blue-tinged artificial blood that has “saved more lives than penicillin.” Yet he still has not found a cure for his disease — something he desperately wants, not for his own sake, but for his childhood friend Milo (Matt Smith), who suffers from the same disease and funds Morbius’ research through his wealth. Milo dances and preens every moment he’s on camera, in a performance that’s only marred by the CGI makeover both leads get when they vamp up, a choice that doesn’t seem much better than Buffy the Vampire Slayer-style prosthetics. Morbius is the kind of magic you’d want to keep a lid on: a two-hour spell that makes viewers forget it actually stars Jared Leto, one of the few men alive in danger of being too interesting, thanks to his widely publicized overcommitment to Method acting and a public persona that frequently evokes “benevolent cult leader” vibes. And a movie that apes Venom without an unpredictable performance at the center, it turns out, is a pretty lousy time.

Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a ...

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This article contains Morbius spoilers. Ever since Marvel Studios began the tradition of including extra scenes during or after the end credits of its ...

We’ll have to see what happens if Morbius underperforms, although at least one more Arad-produced movie, Kraven the Hunter, is already in production and an inexplicable Madame Web film is on the way as well. Arad certainly deserves credit for his role in saving Marvel Comics and launching what became Marvel Studios in the period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The implication is that this Toomes suddenly was transported from his cell in a different universe–presumably the MCU universe where was jailed at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming–and ended up here. Suddenly out of the sky appears Toomes in his full Vulture regalia (or at least a CG version of him since we never see Keaton’s face again). The Vulture expresses something to the effect that he doesn’t know how he got here, but he thinks it “has something do with Spider-Man.” A scene showing Morbius walking past a Spider-Man poster on a city wall–also seen in trailers–is also missing from the movie. In Morbius, Dr. Michael Morbius ( Jared Leto) is experimenting with a serum derived from vampire bat DNA to cure a rare blood disorder that he suffers from.

The violet cracks in the sky symbolize the multiverse breaking, and with this credits scene, the implication is that Morbius (Jared Leto) and his world (which ...

Yet with this bombshell cameo (which was teased in one of its trailers), it can’t help but feel a little like the credits scene and potential sequel are more important than anything that just happened in Morbius. All this universe-colliding stuff is a big deal because it’s how Marvel and Sony have addressed the film rights of various characters. The second scene picks up where the first one leaves off, and features Morbius meeting up with a free Toomes. The Vulture wants to recruit our living vampire into some kind of supervillain posse. Morbius has two credits scenes, one for every year that the movie was delayed! Morbius’s first credits scene features the purple time rift seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home. In that movie, Doctor Strange has to put the world back together to stop the multiverse from collapsing on itself. But since Toomes hasn’t been convicted of any crimes in Morbius’s world, we see him exonerated and freed.

How do the 'Morbius' credits scenes set up 'Sinister Six,' and how do they tie into the MCU? Read on and excelsior!

By the way, neither of these credits scenes are the Morbius-Toomes encounter from the January 2020 trailer, which showed them meeting as they passed in an alley (with Keaton delivering the “What’s up, doc?” line). That scene is not in the current film. Then Toomes (Keaton) finds himself in a prison cell in the continuity of “Morbius,” followed by news reports that he’s sure to be released after having just appeared out of nowhere. Toomes, in his full Vulture armor — including the mask that could conveniently excuse Keaton from filming, I’m just saying — shows up, thanks Morbius for meeting him and says they should band together to “do some good.” In the first scene, we see the familiar multiverse rift from “No Way Home” over the New York skyline. Now the MCU’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” multiverse fracture has thrown open the doors for pretty much any Spidey villain to wind up in the Six. If there can be said to be a classic Sinister Six lineup, it would include Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio and Sandman.