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)

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)

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)

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)