Director: Daniel Espinosa. Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Michael Keaton. 104 min. Fantasy/Action.
- The 16% score on RottenTomatoes notwithstanding, I went into this hoping for some kind of Marvel superhero-Vampire horror merger. Not only was I disappointed on that front, I was disappointed on all fronts: there's nothing in this movie to make it memorable from the deluge of other superhero movies out there.
- Michael Morbius is just another scientist (like Bruce Banner/Hulk, Tony Stark/Iron Man, Hank Pym/Ant-Man, Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, Curt Conners/Lizard, Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, etc) who's poisoned by his own science and his ego to become a better/stronger/healthier creature, and ends up an anti-hero who finds a nemesis in another who's used the same poison (like Venom vs. Carnage, Black Widow vs. her sister, Wolverine vs. his brother, Hulk vs. Abomination, ...), leaving us with an ambivalent protagonist with all kinds of interesting story possibilities. But you can't ignore he's still more of the same.
- What mainly interested me was what I saw in the trailer: Michael Keaton's return as the Vulture, and a Spider-Man painting on a street wall. The former showed up only at the end of the movie; the latter didn't show up at all.
MoGo's rating: 5/10
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