Morbius Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs
Sony's vampiric superhero film - wait for it - sucks.
More than three years after it started shooting, Sony's Morbius is finally here, and to the surprise of few who've been following the film's production or marketing, the end result isn't good.
Daniel Espinosa's (Life) superhero flick is earning some of the worst critical reviews of the year so far, even if there's some divide on precisely how bad Morbius actually is.
Is it an irredeemable Marvel dumpster fire on the level of, say, Elektra? Not quite, in large part thanks to the solid cast, though it still feels like a massive wasted opportunity - a shockingly lazy attempt to adapt a cult fave superhero to the big screen.
With the film's numerous release days - not all of which can be blamed on the pandemic - and rickety post-production process, it's clear that Sony scrambled to try and fix this fundamentally messy piece of work after-the-fact and simply couldn't.
For now its place in Sony's Spider-Man Universe remains somewhat uncertain, for though Morbius' credits scenes make some rather puzzling hints at what's to come, it'll entirely depend on whether the scathing reviews end up derailing its fairly solid box office tracking.
But on pure merits (or lack thereof) alone, here's what Morbius gets so, so wrong...