Well, Morbius is finally here. Too bad it's undead on arrival. Here's rockmarooned's review of the woebegone vampiric superhero film:
without Venom, with Jared Leto as another super-monster who must try to contain the beast within. The newest entry in the SSMCU—Sony Sorta-Marvel Cinematic Underverse—casts Leto as Morbius, The Living Vampire. He’s the latest in a rich lineage of Spider-Man antagonists who begin as frustrated scientists, one of multiple mirror-shard reflections of the STEM-minded and mostly virtuous Peter Parker. This particular Dr. Frankenstein riff crossfades into Dracula territory, as Leto’s Dr.
It’s all more horrific than the MCUPAL can handle, at least in theory. Like Venom, who Dr. Morbius nonsensically makes reference to while menacing a gang of counterfeiters, this character makes an immediate play for sympathetic-antihero status, with a lot of the gruesome stuff elided, or limited to gun-toting, anonymous bad guys.
Smith does his part, giving the relishing-dandy performance missing from so many recent superhero villains, but while this quasi-horror movie feels fleet at first, it ultimately jettisons too much. Beyond whatever scenes have been reworked, recut or just plain deleted from an abbreviated final cut, the movie shies away from the vampirism that could have made this more than a swift origin story: There’s surprisingly little blood in this sucker and, of course, eroticism is largely eschewed.
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