Morbius Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

6. It's Horribly Edited

Even if we didn't already know that Morbius was heavily tinkered with during post-production, it's painfully obvious from the end result that the film was hacked to pieces in editing.

Clocking in at barely 90 minutes long without credits, this is a frantic sprint from one scene to the next, with Espinosa giving little time for those precious few human moments to breathe.

Everything feels overly rushed, and it's hilariously clear that reams of material were cleaved away at some point - including numerous MCU references spotted in the trailers.

Elsewhere, Michael Keaton's original scenes as Vulture don't appear in the final film and are replaced with scenes he recently shot instead, and despite the trailers showing Tyrese's FBI agent with a bionic arm, this doesn't actually appear in the final movie and is only mentioned by his character once.

Presumably we'll find out more about the film's fraught journey to the big screen in due course, but there's no hiding just how much of a choppy mess it is.