Morbius

I watched it out of compulsion because I'm sick of comic book movies, and how can I say this, somehow I survived unscathed. Mostly surprisingly intimate, holding back, taking place mostly between interior walls in the space of a few rooms. It doesn't have any eye-candy moments that make it memorable, it's just the whole inoffensive definition of mediocrity. Jared Leto was okay, as long as he didn't just make himself look like a vampire thanks to the ugly CGI, he acted artfully and wasn't the weakest link. It just that unfortunately it has a ridiculously cringing Matt Smith, and it has Tyrese Gibson looking like he's expecting diarrhea at any moment the whole time. The final CGI fight, drowned in darkness, is forgotten within five minutes. Like the whole film, actually. (24.10.2023)

Das Studio Sony setzt nach dem Erfolg von Venom weiterhin darauf, 20 Jahre alte Sackgassen des Films zu erkunden und setzt nur darauf, dass das Endergebnis das Etikett "beliebter Marvel" tragen kann. Wenn man jedoch dieses Etikett von Morbius abzieht, bleibt nur der Äquivalent all dieser billigen direct-to-video Vampir-Trash-Filme mit schlechten Schauspielern und noch schlechteren Effekten, die den Markt um das Jahr 2000 nach dem Erfolg von Blade überfluteten und die damals nur wenige interessierten und heute sicherlich niemanden interessieren. In seinen besseren Momenten ist Morbius nur ein fade, oft gesehenes Comic-Original, das nur das einfachste denkbare Handlungsschema erfüllt. In seinen schlimmsten Momenten ist es ein totaler Cringefest mit speziellen Effekten und digitalen Masken, die an einen pixeligen Holocaust erinnern. Uwe Boll würde applaudieren. (30.03.2022)

Was die Eigenschaften von Morbius betrifft, so wird oft Venom: Let There Be Carnage erwähnt, der sich qualitativ an der Grenze zwischen Durchschnitt und Unterdurchschnitt bewegte, aber zumindest versuchte er, lustig zu sein, was ihm auch manchmal gelang. Morbius weiß nicht, wen und was er beeindrucken könnte (und sollte)! Espinosas Film ist weder actionreich, noch gruselig, noch - wie gesagt - lustig genug. Der Film hat eine erschreckend kurze Laufzeit, so dass der Zuschauer eine Aneinanderreihung von willkürlich angeordneten Szenen ohne Kausalität und Logik vorgesetzt bekommt. Was die visuellen Effekte angeht, so ist der Film nach heutigen Maßstäben schlampig gemacht - der Vampir-Look ist eher gruselig als furchtbar unheimlich. Selbst Nightcrawler aus X-Men 2 hatte bessere "Smoke Moves" drauf als Morbius und Co. Leto gab sein Bestes, aber das schlechte Drehbuch brachte ihn bei jedem Schritt (oder Sprung) ins Stolpern, während Smith geradezu peinlich war. Der Rest der Besetzung war nur eine Art zweckloses Füllmaterial. Angesichts der (eher) lauwarmen Titelszenen bin ich gespannt, ob Morbius nach diesem unterdurchschnittlichen Werk noch einmal auf der großen Leinwand erscheinen wird. (02.04.2022)

Honestly, did anyone expect Morbius to be a good movie? The trailers didn't suggest anything of the sort, and after how Venom turned out, it's not a bad thing to be wary when it comes to Sony comic book movies. So talking about disappointment wouldn't make much sense, the film exactly as crappy as most of us probably expected. Like Venom, Morbius feels like a comic book movie from the days when Ben Affleck as Daredevil and Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider were goofing around in theaters. Simple entertainment with a simple story, realistically about six characters, no surprises, no ideas and nothing worth paying attention to. Moreover, Jared Leto is no Tom Hardy and while he doesn't spoil anything here, his Morbius simply isn't an interesting character, but that's more the fault of the writers who occasionally try to bite on some attractive themes, anti-heroics and a potentially interesting relationship between the main character and the villain. In the end, however, they ignore all that and serve up a boring film that has nothing to offer in real terms. And when they start to try for some kind of bigger story at the end, it still doesn't work. Oh, and the vampire faces are pretty ugly. (30.03.2022)

The actors do a solid job, and the effects aren't half bad either. But let's face it, no one expected this to turn out so poorly. It ended up being a shiny nothing — boring, dull, and a total letdown. (07.01.2023)

Dilemmas of dying men in a pleasant spirit and pace, which paradoxically undermine almost all genre comic efforts. I liked the project for quite a long time, until everything went wrong. All events take place in an unpleasant twilight, the effects have at best variable quality, the main hero flies in front of a subway train, everything is commented by the incapable, gruff, and fantastically inappropriately cast duo of detectives, I don't believe in the love story for a second, I cringe awkwardly at the lines - and the worst comes at the very end. Subtitle scenes, trying to situate the whole story in a spider's world. At that moment, not a single event or word makes sense and the script cleverly ridicules the viewer who tried to take the development of the titular character at least a bit seriously. (16.08.2024)

I am Manbat! Jared Leto in a strange variation on a dime-a-dozen Spiderman baddie & unknown Batman baddie is seriously bad. The senseless decisions, unclear motives and questionable rules for the functioning of this entire newly created universe are pitiful. The idiotic screenplay manages even to kill any potentially intriguing storylines and the nicely set up hero/baddie relationship is destroyed unexpectedly amateurishly. The obviously heavily cut ending with the footage of Keaton indicates that Morbius is for teenagers and movie consumers who don’t like to use their minds. (02.09.2022)

While it doesn't match the qualities of its MCU neighbors (but it's better than Black Widow and not much worse than the first Doctor Strange), Morbius is definitely better than both Venom movies combined, and that's mostly because of the characters. It’s a shame that they didn’t go further with the horror, because with this film and this protagonist they could have afforded it. I like that the trailers I saw didn't give everything away and actually kept the villain completely hidden until the theater, for example. And while he's not a great villain, he's a good one, and his motivations are presented in a fairly believable way, though in a slightly limited space. The action scenes aren't many, but they are there, and they don't turn into a cluttered mess thanks to slowing down time at the right moments. Jared Leto made a good impression on me in the lead role, I trusted the headstrong hero who refuses to give up his humanity. For me it was nothing ground-breaking, but a pleasant and inoffensive film, where, unlike the aforementioned Venom, I didn't have to be ashamed of what on earth I was watching. (01.04.2022)

Morbius in the end is not as bad as everyone originally announced, but at the same time it is definitely not as good as we hoped. In the context of the Marvel franchise, it's clearly one of the worse pieces and actually has very little to do with it (see below), but as a standalone film, it's a digestible actioner that doesn't dazzle too much, but doesn't bore either. The problem is that Morbius doesn't stand out for much of anything, and so it will likely be a forgettable affair for several reasons. The acting is average, the vampire make-up doesn’t impress, the story is clichéd, the humour is completely absent, there is no connection with other characters, the action isn't groundbreaking and the CGI is awful – I didn't mind it at first, but as time went on more and more of it was added until the finale turned into a giant digital mess. The slow-motion scenes get overwhelming after a while and start to annoy you as well, the villain is boring, bland and without a proper motivation. Simply a terribly superficial affair that didn’t bore me, but I wouldn't recommend a cinema visit. A huge misstep by the standards of superhero movies, but I liked the post-credit scene, and quite a lot, so we'll see what interesting things Morbius brings us in the future. Either way, the film is further proof that the Marvel brand is not a guarantee of quality, but it's about the person sitting in the director's chair. I was originally leaning towards three star, but the botched finale and the idea of how good this anti-hero could potentially be made me stick with two. (30.03.2022)