Morbius

Tras la segunda Venom, Sony sigue explorando callejones sin salida cinematográficos de hace veinte años, apostando sólo a que puede dar al producto final el popular sello Marvel. Pero si le quitas a Morbius ese sello, te quedas con el equivalente de todos esos fiascos baratos de vampiros directos a vídeo con malos actores y efectos aún peores que inundaron el mercado de DVD baratos alrededor del año 2000 tras el éxito de Blade, y por los que pocos sentían curiosidad entonces y ciertamente nadie siente curiosidad ahora. En sus mejores momentos, Morbius no es más que un aburrido original de cómic muchas veces visto que sólo llena el esquema argumental más simple concebible. En sus peores momentos, es un auténtico cringeefest con efectos especiales y máscaras digitales que recuerdan a un holocausto de píxeles. Uwe Boll habría aplaudido. (30.03.2022)

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)

The dilemmas of dying men in a pleasant spirit and at a brisk pace, which paradoxically undercut almost all genre comic book efforts. I was liking this project for quite a long time, until everything went wrong. All the events take place in an unpleasant twilight, the effects are of varying quality at best, the main hero flies in front of a subway train, everything has to be commented on by an 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 descends into clever mockery of any viewer who tried to take the development of the titular character at least a bit seriously. (16.08.2024)

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)

Dallas Buyers Club, Marvel edition. The treatment of the moribund Doctor Morbius tries to be dark and intimate in some respects, but what could be worse than an anemic vampire film where the characters take steps you can see in the mirror minutes ahead? On top of that, the confused action at the end, thanks to the editing, is downright catastrophic, leaving you with the impression that the Toasted Bun from Ren & Stimpy is flying through the streets while the computer graphics crew lazily mimics the handiwork of the makeup artists from The Lost Boys. (31.10.2024)