Morbius

I'm not sure anyone expected Jared Leto's Morbius to be some sort of MCU-level critical hit, but now that the reviews are in for the blockbuster, Morbius is ...

It’s really strange situation and while sometimes it’s worked out well enough (Venom!), Morbius may be a sign of a slate of pretty awful movies to come, unless they can figure out a way to make these relatively obscure villains work onscreen. So as you can see, this is some truly rarified air. Here’s how it stacks up to some truly terrible classics:

Jared Leto plays the Marvel antihero 'Morbius' in this poorly-made action thriller.

And “Morbius” might be the worst-looking of them all. The bloody incident grabs the attention of detectives Stroud (Tyrese Gibson) and Rodriguez (Al Madrigal), who come to suspect Morbius in a string of murders. It’s a shocking problem in “Morbius” considering editor Pietro Scalia’s past award-winning work on “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down.” Why is Espinosa so afraid to show blood or gore? Smith rises above the film, moving with a lanky, unencumbered energy not unlike his “Doctor Who” days. Unlike “Blade Runner 2049” or “The Little Things,” where he could float through scenes as a blank villain, Morbius requires pathos, a layer deeply lacking in Leto’s range. The scrubbing in “Morbius” starts with a flashback to 25 years earlier. Daniel Espinosa’s “Morbius,” a misbegotten, artistically bankrupt bid by writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to fuse a gothic horror edge to the MCU, is the nadir of comic book cinema. The slow motion and jump scare editing, mixed with plumes of black smoke, aims for frights, but only manages to stitch together a smattering of incomprehensible images. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, the titular villain, sometimes anti-hero, sprung from the pages of “The Amazing Spider-Man” in 1971, imbuing the webslinger’s universe with a supernatural grittiness. Espinosa, unfortunately, is so beholden to the timbre of mass entertainment, he struggles to provide his film with the necessary bloodlust, brutality and frights to rise above a snore. So as Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), a brooding biochemist living with a blood disease, sways with the assistance of crutches getting off the helicopter, the mystery of his story is moot. It’s no secret the desperate lengths contemporary movies, especially of the comic book variety, rely on VFX to do a film’s emotional heavy lifting.

As Marvel movies go, "Morbius" is more a sip than a gulp, a relatively small-boned Jekyll-and-Hyde tale that moves another Spider-Man villain into the ...

) from a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, "Morbius" has ample company in the world of tortured antiheroes and villains whose well-intentioned scientific goals go terribly wrong. But the material is too anemic, frankly, to contemplate spreading its wings much beyond that. , the timing of the film's arrival merely underscores Jared Leto's range, from this living vampire to an entrepreneurial vampire in "WeCrashed"

Morbius star, one of the Sony movies linked to its universe of live-action Spider-Man films, stars Jared Leto and arrives in theaters Friday.

If it is released to stream within the six months that Deadline reported, No Way Home would arrive on Starz before early August. No Way Home was released in late 2021, and Sony has an agreement in place for its 2021 movies to go to the premium cable network Starz first, not Netflix. But Netflix never charges any additional fees to watch anything in its library, and Morbius will be part of the standard catalog like everything else.

The latest hero from Marvel is hard to explain. He's a man and yet also a bat. No, not Batman. Let me try again: He's a daywalking vampire, but, no, ...

He just has to ignore moments like when Morbius is chained to a desk in a police department’s interview room and says: “I’m starting to get hungry and you don’t want to see me when I’m hungry.” There will be a lot of debate over where “Morbius” sits in the Marvel canon. For some reason, whenever he leaps, he is enveloped by a viscous cloud. He also seems to be able to turn into a bat and fly but why he hasn't flapped his way out of this film is unfathomable. What's astonishing is that despite a whole movie, we know very little about Morbius. He is so principled that he turns down a Nobel Prize but perfectly OK slaughtering henchmen. He's a man and yet also a bat.

Matt Smith co-stars as Morbius' friend Milo, while Adria Arjona is Dr. Martine Bancroft, Jared Harris is Dr. Nicholas, Tyrese Gibson is FBI Agent Simon Stroud, ...

What Morbius will do in the long-term, though, will likely be answered in a sequel. In his own universe, Toomes was a villain – but in the Sony-verse, he could be seeking a fresh start. That's most likely because it references the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home – where Spider-Man was accused of killing Mysterio – and Morbius does not actually take place in the MCU (perhaps the plan changed at some stage in Morbius' development, though that remains unclear). How exactly he ended up in the Sony-verse is a mystery. Agents Stroud and Rodriguez hunt Morbius throughout the film, and are on the scene of his final showdown with Milo. When Morbius bursts out from underground and flies away in a swarm of bats, they stand and watch – and that's the last we see of them. Morbius believes the anti-coagulants in vampire bat saliva could help cure the disease – but ends up turning himself into a vampire instead. Milo believes Nicholas always favored Morbius and says that Nicholas pitied him before – and is repulsed by him now. As for why Milo has no problem with killing people, he says that, for their whole lives, he and Morbius have lived with death – so others can know how it feels for a change. During the final fight with Milo, a swarm of bats comes to Morbius' aid and holds Milo down. Both Milo and Morbius suffer from a rare blood disease, though it's given no name in the movie. With the help of Dr. Martine Bancroft, Morbius creates an antibody – one that will kill any "vampire" he injects with it. We've rounded up every single question you could possibly have on the Morbius ending, from what Vulture is doing in the Sony-verse to the fate of the main characters.

Morbius tries to set up a cinematic universe to rival the MCU, alienating the audience in the process.

Considering how tightly controlled and perfectly calibrated the MCU is, it’s pretty astonishing that Sony has managed to hijack it for its own ends, confusing fans of both franchises. Morbius also has no reason to dislike Spider-Man - in fact, it’s not clear if Spidey even exists in this universe. The second scene sees Morbius driving down a highway, then getting out of his car to meet Vulture, who is now equipped with his high-tech jetpack suit.

By Jim Slotek. Rating: C-plus. Much like splicing human and vampire bat DNA, fusing a Marvel movie and a horror film has intriguing possibilities.

The transformation to blood sucker is more Hulk-like than Dracula (Morbius even tosses off a Bruce Banner-ish line when he is briefly in custody: “I’m getting hungry. I suppose a vampire movie built on mood was never in the cards. Owing to the illegal and unethical aspects of his work, Dr. Morbius and his colleague/love-interest Dr. Martine Bancroft ( Adria Arjona) carry out their human test on a cargo ship in international waters. In fact, for all the usual super-hero sturm und drang to which Morbius eventually succumbs, its best moments are claustrophobic. Morbius is a part of the Spider-Man Sony/Marvel universe. Dr. Michael Morbius, played here by Jared Leto, is a mad scientist of the My-God-what-have-I-done variety.

It is, in fact, the worst of the year so far. It has no redeeming qualities, from Jared Leto's monotonous, derivitive Blade rip-off — ah yes, another ...

It is, in fact, the worst of the year so far. Now, characters from each distinct brand can come into conflict — a new variant of Iron Man, for example, or Patrick Stewart’s twice-dead Professor X, or indeed three Spider-Men — the toys being mashed together by conglomerates desperate to milk as much as they can from an insatiable audience of foamy-mouthed fanboys. It has no redeeming qualities, from Jared Leto's monotonous, derivitive Blade rip-off — ah yes, another embarassing performance from the prince of prosthetics — to its absolute lack of formal imagination, inventive plotting, or technical acuity.

An ailing biochemist aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism in the Marvel movie Morbius.

Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes. Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day. Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.

How do the 'Morbius' credits scenes set up 'Sinister Six,' and how do they tie into the MCU? Read on and excelsior!

By the way, neither of these credits scenes are the Morbius-Toomes encounter from the January 2020 trailer, which showed them meeting as they passed in an alley (with Keaton delivering the “What’s up, doc?” line). That scene is not in the current film. Then Toomes (Keaton) finds himself in a prison cell in the continuity of “Morbius,” followed by news reports that he’s sure to be released after having just appeared out of nowhere. Toomes, in his full Vulture armor — including the mask that could conveniently excuse Keaton from filming, I’m just saying — shows up, thanks Morbius for meeting him and says they should band together to “do some good.” In the first scene, we see the familiar multiverse rift from “No Way Home” over the New York skyline. Now the MCU’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” multiverse fracture has thrown open the doors for pretty much any Spidey villain to wind up in the Six. If there can be said to be a classic Sinister Six lineup, it would include Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio and Sandman.

Sony Pictures' superhero efforts have varied wildly in success, but their latest deserves a stake through its heart.

Morbius goes about crossing off all the things that audiences expect from a superhero movie—the origin story, the villain with a personal relationship to the protagonist, the journey of learning to embrace new powers—with all the enthusiasm of a routine colonoscopy. Of course, this also wouldn’t be the first time that Jared Leto showed up in a superhero blockbuster with a host of villains—and we know how well that went. He was one of the most entertaining performers of 2021, turning in performances in The Little Things and House of Gucci that stole the show from the likes of Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, and Lady Gaga. Had he brought half the chaotic energy he did to playing a creepy serial killer suspect or a paunchy failson to Morbius, the film could’ve been watchable—perhaps even worthy of a so-bad-it’s-good sequel. But Leto’s antihero is surprisingly muted and devoid of any charisma, whether he’s sharing scenes with a supposed love interest or a childhood best friend turned villain with an impressive net worth that is never explained. If the film’s two mid-credits scenes featuring (minor spoiler alert) Michael Keaton’s Vulture are any indication, this isn’t the last we’ll see of Dr. Michael Morbius, who could find himself sharing screen time with other Spider-Man villains in the near future. And so, along with his colleague and possible romantic interest Dr. Martine Bancroft—a character whom actress Adria Arjona earnestly compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—Morbius tests the cure on himself in exotic international waters (a.k.a., 16 miles off the coast of Long Island). Suffice it to say, it doesn’t go well—as in, Morbius turns into a vampiric man-beast who drains the blood of everyone aboard the ship aside from Bancroft. At the start of the movie, we see Dr. Michael Morbius (Leto) capture a group of vampire bats in the jungles of Costa Rica, hoping to splice their DNA with that of humans to cure his blood disorder. But the greatest virtue of the Sony-produced Marvel movies—their sheer unpredictability—can also be a curse, much like a Nobel Prize–winning doctor discovering a cure for a rare blood disease that turns him into a living vampire. The sad truth is that Venom might’ve followed a similar path if it weren’t for Hardy hijacking the project by jumping in a lobster tank and being a complete weirdo on every level. [Licks the blood off the man’s face.] That injury will require an external nose splint administered by a medical professional. The Andrew Garfield–led Spider-Man franchise was so underwhelming that the studio turned to Marvel Studios when rebooting the character—and the Kevin Feige–approved Tom Holland era has been considerably better—while the Venom films have emerged as a horny, chaotic celebration of symbiote-human companionship. As the owner of the film rights to Spider-Man and the extensive library of comic book characters associated with the superhero, Sony has created many of its own Marvel movies, and the results have been all over the place.

This article contains Morbius spoilers. Ever since Marvel Studios began the tradition of including extra scenes during or after the end credits of its ...

We’ll have to see what happens if Morbius underperforms, although at least one more Arad-produced movie, Kraven the Hunter, is already in production and an inexplicable Madame Web film is on the way as well. Arad certainly deserves credit for his role in saving Marvel Comics and launching what became Marvel Studios in the period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The implication is that this Toomes suddenly was transported from his cell in a different universe–presumably the MCU universe where was jailed at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming–and ended up here. Suddenly out of the sky appears Toomes in his full Vulture regalia (or at least a CG version of him since we never see Keaton’s face again). The Vulture expresses something to the effect that he doesn’t know how he got here, but he thinks it “has something do with Spider-Man.” A scene showing Morbius walking past a Spider-Man poster on a city wall–also seen in trailers–is also missing from the movie. In Morbius, Dr. Michael Morbius ( Jared Leto) is experimenting with a serum derived from vampire bat DNA to cure a rare blood disorder that he suffers from.

The violet cracks in the sky symbolize the multiverse breaking, and with this credits scene, the implication is that Morbius (Jared Leto) and his world (which ...

Yet with this bombshell cameo (which was teased in one of its trailers), it can’t help but feel a little like the credits scene and potential sequel are more important than anything that just happened in Morbius. All this universe-colliding stuff is a big deal because it’s how Marvel and Sony have addressed the film rights of various characters. The second scene picks up where the first one leaves off, and features Morbius meeting up with a free Toomes. The Vulture wants to recruit our living vampire into some kind of supervillain posse. Morbius has two credits scenes, one for every year that the movie was delayed! Morbius’s first credits scene features the purple time rift seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home. In that movie, Doctor Strange has to put the world back together to stop the multiverse from collapsing on itself. But since Toomes hasn’t been convicted of any crimes in Morbius’s world, we see him exonerated and freed.

Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a ...

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Au royaume de Marvel, il y a le moyen («Iron Man 2»), le mauvais («Les éternels»)... et, désormais, il y a «Morbius». Même dans les films des studios Marvel ...

Les poses de Morbius sur les gratte-ciel? Avec l’aide de Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), une chercheuse et son assistante – de qui il est amoureux –, il va tenter d’échapper à ce destin atroce. Twilight. Morbius a du mal à maîtriser son monstre intérieur? L’incroyable Hulk. Morbius se retrouve au milieu de chauves-souris? Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) souffre d’une maladie du sang depuis qu’il est petit. Même dans les films des studios Marvel les moins réussis, on trouvait quelque chose, un effort scénaristique, des effets spéciaux inédits, une sous intrigue qui promettait d’être explorée dans un autre long métrage. Là, rien. En effet, on a l’impression que chaque scène, chaque plan, chaque effet spécial est tiré d’un autre long métrage. Morbius ne veut pas consommer de sang humain?

Venom, Venom : Let There Be Carnage et Morbius ne sont que les premiers films du Sony Spider-Man Universe. D'autres merveilles arrivent et on vous rappelle ...

Pour le moment, le film est en phase d'écriture depuis 2020 par Marc Guggenheim, le créateur de la série Arrow, scénariste sur les comics Jackpot, mais aussi du film Green Lantern. Les informations sur le projet se résument malheureusement à ça. On ne sait même pas si l'on suivra Sara Ehert, la Jackpot originelle, ou Alana Jobson, celle qui reprendra son identité pendant un temps. D'autant que Les Gardiens de la Galaxie reposait sur une équipe très peu connue du grand public avant d'être adaptée par James Gunn, idem pour la plupart des Avengers au début du MCU. Mais la vie de super-héros ne lui plaisant pas, elle laisse son identité et sa tenue à une femme dénuée de pouvoirs, mais se rêvant justicière. La fatalité poussera Sara Ehret à reprendre le nom de Jackpot. Le film Kraven le chasseur est celui dont on en sait le plus parmi les projets de Sony. Ce chasseur implacable dopé aux potions augmentant ses capacités est apparu pour la première fois dans le 15e numéro de The Amazing Spider-Man en 1964. Plus jeune, mais toujours aveugle, Carpenter possède les pouvoirs de Madame Web et de Spider-Man, un choix plus logique au vu du casting. La jeune actrice Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) sera aussi dans le film dans un rôle encore inconnu. À la réalisation, ce sera J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year, Triple Frontier) qui adaptera un scénario de Richard Wenk (The Equalizer 1 et 2). On sait même la date de sortie : 13 janvier 2023. Ce personnage est créé par Denny O'Neil et John Romita Jr. en 1980 dans The Amazing Spider-Man #210. Incapable de bouger à cause d'un handicap moteur, en plus d'être aveugle, elle est contrainte de vivre attachée à un système de survie prenant la forme d'une toile d'araignée, d'où son nom. Après un accident de laboratoire, son ADN est modifié et elle obtient des pouvoirs. En plus de son fauteuil plutôt encombrant, mais stylé, elle possède des dons de voyance et de télépathie, faisant d'elle une très bonne alliée. Mais que vaudra-t-elle en personnage principal d'un film ? Ici, ce sont les futurs longs-métrages de l'univers Spider-Man développé par Sony qui nous intéressent. Matt Sazama et Burk Sharpless seraient à l'écriture du film, se sont eux derrière Gods of Egypt et...

Sorti mercredi au cinéma, Morbius fait déjà couler beaucoup d'encre. Le film est-il le pire Marvel de l'Histoire ?

Malgré les critiques assassines dans l’Hexagone et au pays de l’Oncle Sam, Venom : Let There Be Carnage s’est imposé comme un succès à travers le globe. On dira simplement que malgré quelques bonnes idées ici et là, et une performance plutôt convaincante pour Jared Leto, le nouveau film de Sony est une succession de rendez-vous manqué. En effet, on pouvait apercevoir Le Vautour de Michael Keaton dans les dernières bande-annonces. Les spectateurs ont en effet remarqué l’absence de certaines séquences centrales des bande-annonces dans le montage final du film. Le long-métrage, qui met en scène Jared Leto, ambitionne néanmoins de s’imposer comme un succès, surtout après le braquage réalisé par Spider-Man : No Way Home. Les choses risquent d’être un peu plus compliquées que prévu. Sur 73 critiques, il parvient à peine à dépasser les 21% de notes positives.

Director Daniel Espinosa's Morbius — out April 1st — rips the classic Spider-Man villain out of Marvel's comic just to put him in a movie drained of all ...

But what does feel distinct to Morbius as a movie is the degree to which it’s willing to depict disabled people as frail, weak victims whose entire lives are defined in relation to the able-bodied. The implication, of course, being that Sony’s not through yet. In another universe, Morbius would dig a bit deeper into what might have been an interesting premise: the eccentric founder of a synthetic blood company becomes a pseudo-vampire who also moonlights as a superhero. But in this universe, the movie opts for the road more traveled — one paved with flashy VFX, opaque character motivations, and a climactic action sequence that plays like an overlong quick time event. Morbius doesn’t really try to detail how bat DNA is supposed to factor into Morbius’ condition or explain how he manages to transport hundreds of bats back to his laboratory after willingly walking into a swarm of them in the dramatic scene from the movie’s trailers. Morbius dives headfirst into the already-in-progress origin story of its titular ghoul, Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), a brilliant scientist and lifelong sufferer of a chronic blood disorder.

Jared Leto bares his teeth as a neo-vampire who walks by day and tries to keep his monstrous thirst at bay in the latest Marvel adaptation.

And while most of it is as predictably familiar as expected, it does something unusual for a movie like this: It entertains you, rather than bludgeons you into submission. Leto’s history of needless showboating (as in that wreck “ House of Gucci”) may not have boded well, but he fits the role and delivers an actual performance, not just shtick and brooding poses. One of the revelations of “Morbius” — the latest movie to take a marginal Marvel character out of mothballs for his blockbuster close-up — is that regular blood smoothies do wonders for the skin. Milo grows up to become a louche moneybags played by Matt Smith, who’s best known for playing Prince Philip in “The Crown,” a bit of casting history that gives his role here amusing tang. After a leisurely flashback to his sad childhood, Morbius is back in his New York lab, experimenting and knitting brows alongside a colleague, Monica (Adria Arjona). It also runs under two hours, i.e., a full hour less than that recent slugfest “ The Batman.” I mean, what’s not to like?

Jared Leto is the scientist-turned-anti-hero in a diabolical shambles that suggests carnage in the edit suite.

Jared Leto's one-note vampire is possibly the least helpful superhero we've seen yet.

Morbius is reflective of Leto’s much more self-serious side, and the film is thuddingly tedious as a result. The only time Morbius seems fleetingly interested in working for the public good is when he stalks some shady-seeming gangsters to a lab where they’re making counterfeit goods—but he then reveals that he only wants to hijack their lab to carry out more of his experiments. When Leto is at his most maximalist, it helps if the movie matches him—the willingness to embrace exaggerated silliness is what made House of Gucci such an enjoyable ride, with Leto hamming it up right in the middle of all the chaos. Most crucially, his best friend, Milo (Matt Smith), who has the same blood condition, gets his hands on the serum and becomes a vampire as well, embracing his villainy and delivering many a florid monologue about how great it is to suck people’s blood out of their neck. Leto, an actor who often makes a public meal of how committed he is to his roles, does his best to sell the monster within through lots of anguished screaming. Griping about a trend that’s just a Hollywood fact of life is almost trite, but in the case of Morbius, the dark and gloomy Jared Leto vehicle finally making it to theaters this weekend, I have to register a complaint.

An analysis of the two mid-credits (or post-credits) scenes in Marvel and Sony's latest Spider-Man spinoff Morbius, starring Jared Leto as Dr. Michael ...

All we can say for sure is that nothing in either mid-credits scene contradicts No Way Home, and there is clearly more to this story and the rules of the multiverse that we’ll hopefully see explained across future films. No Way Home’s post-credits scene may have already hinted at a flaw in the spell, given that when Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is transported back to his world, a piece of the Venom symbiote gets left behind in the MCU. So clearly, not every living creature who was aware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man got sent back. The question of how Toomes was transported from the MCU to the SSU has puzzled some viewers, since Strange’s spell at the end of No Way Home supposedly only reverted the villains who had breached the multiverse back to their original dimensions. We just don’t know yet; as Strange tells Peter (Tom Holland) in No Way Home, “The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.” The same goes for Marvel’s rules on magic. I don’t know how I got here … something to do with Spider-Man. I’m thinking of putting a team together. The anchor reports that a hearing has been set, which “could likely lead to his immediate release.” Toomes is then escorted into a police car by several officers.

Morbius Two scenes for credits, one for each year the movie is delayed! And these two scenes are totally crazy and arguably more important - for better.

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