Initial reviews of Marvel’s ‘Morbius: The Living Vampire’ are in, and they are not looking good, to say the very least.
At the time of writing, the movie has a 17% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes with over 132 reviews and counting. The film, starring Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, has the record for the most-delayed film during the pandemic. Its release date was pushed back from July 10, 2020 to April 1, 2022.
In the movie, Leto’s Dr. Morbius accidentally infects himself with a form of vampirism by mistake while trying to cure his blood disorder. But it appears that the blood-lusting vamp has crashed and burned, if the reviews from critics are anything to go by.
Film critics who have seen the movie tweeted, calling it “sloppy” and “bad” at best, with end credit scenes that make no sense and are “insulting” to the audience.
A brief selection of reviews of ‘Morbius’ paint a picture of just how bad critics find the movie.
Alonso Duralde from The Wrap said, “It’s become something of a running gag on the internet that ‘Morbius’ isn’t really a movie. Online observers insist that, from its ever-changing release date over the last two years to its grim and somewhat goofy premise involving Jared Leto as a scientist who turns into a vampire, this has to be an elaborate prank and not an actual film…”
Duralde went on to add, “We can confirm that ‘Morbius’ is, really and truly, a movie. Granted, it’s not much of a movie, but it’s a movie nonetheless.”
Matt Donato of IGN said that “Morbius presents its origin story with the most formulaic structure, as an overly serious Leto is doing the opposite of Tom Hardy’s campy Venom schtick that so many adore. It’s a choice that promotes Morbius’ moral conundrum as a self-conscious vampire over anything considered “superhero cinema fun,” taking everything deathly serious to an ultimate detriment.”
Meanwhile, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman said, “‘Morbius’ isn’t even a debacle. It’s a little over 90 minutes long if you don’t count the credits (which include what has to be the worst closing teaser I’ve ever seen in a Marvel movie — it ends with the word “Intriguing,” dangled as if Vincent Price had uttered it), and for all the overwrought push of Jon Ekstrand’s score, the film is nothing more than a flimsy time-killer, an early-April placeholder of a movie.”
IndieWire’s Kate Erbland called the basic elements of the movie “incomprehensible” and said, “Michael has all the trappings of a bad guy — this is the kind of guy who has a massive chamber of bats in the middle of his lab, both for decor and research — but by the time he gifts yet another origami animal to someone he cares about, you’ll have to wonder, this dude is a villain? (Leto, who notoriously immerses himself in his work, could seemingly find little here, his Michael is somehow both confounding and very boring.)”
Twitter users, of course, have found humor in just how terrible this Marvel movie seems to be.
Morbius arrives in theaters on April 1, 2022.
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