The film Morbius is another rote, predictable, anti-hero blockbuster that is as unimaginative as Vampire Batman meets The Matrix. This features a movie with a brilliant doctor suffering from a blood disorder injecting himself with Chiroptera DNA. The film seems nothing but a rehash of other special effects movies. They should have just copied the quality of those scripts though. While the actors provide plenty of flash and pizzazz in their performances, they simply go through the motions of an average script. The action in Morbius is workmanlike, but lacking any surprises.
We first see Michael Morbius (Charlie Shotwell) as a sickly child in a Greek medical facility. He meets the equally infirmed Lucien (Joseph Esson); who he nicknames “Milo”. Both boys suffer from a rare and debilitating blood disorder. Their doctor, Nicholas (Jared Harris), recognizes Michael’s astonishing intellectual aptitude. Twenty-five years later Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) becomes one of the world’s leading hematologists. His latest breakthrough has been his creation of artificial blood which has saved many lives.
Michael becomes obsessed with studying bats’ immune systems which are not only vigorous but very active when they are sick or wounded. He believes this can be done by crossbreeding their genes with human beings to eradicate his disease and that of his best friend.Michael’s coworker, Dr Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), disapproves of this idea entirely. However, she agrees to assist him. They succeed at great cost. Michael acquires amazing gifts.Besides he develops an insatiable thirst for blood which turns him into a monster.
Morbius reads like it had been written by an artificial intelligence program examining original comic book source material.It all plays out like you think it would.The flat characters follow the plot outlined within minutes after we turn it on. Actors like Jared Leto and Matt Smith, who are brilliant in their craft, needed much more to work with. They look as convincing as two sick friends. This relationship turns on a dime. Then things went south in a rather hammily drawn and contrived way that should have been avoided by better directing. Love can go wrong; friendship can become an enemy.The hunger for strength is not enough—they had to have some other reason. Missed was the chance to present how lifelong friends interact over time.
Morbius, during vampire rage mode, moves fast but sees slowly. There is continuous use of the bullet time effect in this film’s action scenes.He kills his enemies using bat-like motions. Or he can avoid their bullets like Neo at his most invulnerable. The special effects get progressively better as Morbius masters his abilities.In the movie it is possible to see only one preferable aspect to this development.
The score and bat imagery is too similar to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy. There is lots of footage showing Morbius being swarmed by bats. The crescendo builds up gradually as if it were from Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack.We could interchange Christian Bale with Jared Leto. This would be the ultimate flattery.But director Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Life) and his composer, Jon Ekstrand, lack originality here.
Morbius was supposed to be R-rated. Vampirism should always involve blood at any given point. An attempt has been made in the film to avoid those elements.It was done because they wanted the movie to make money.In order for all ages and different younger people this got a PG 13 rating.I’m sure a true hardcore adaptation would do just fine. Picture Jared Leto and Matt Smith unleashed upon Earth as ravenous super carnivores. Daniel Espinosa should have taken notes from Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II if you ask me. Also, wait till after credits roll.
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