Morbius (2022)
Director: Daniel Espinosa
There’s been a lot of negativity around Morbius, so I wanted to start this review by saying something positive for a change. Morbius really stimulated my intellectual curiosity, I left that theater and my mind buzzed with questions. Sure, they were questions like, “Why would Sony unleash Morbius on an unsuspecting world?”, “At what point did everyone on set give up?”, and, “Why didn’t anything happen in that movie?”, but those are questions nonetheless. I’m still trying to figure out why Sony took Morbius, a character that isn’t exactly iconic or particularly deep, and gave him a feature film as a debut. I could see introducing him as a side character in Venom 2 and then, if he becomes a fan favorite, getting a spin-off, but not an immediate solo film. That’s enough of that though because now I need to get into the nitty-gritty and explain why Morbius is the cinematic equivalent of waiting two years to cross a street, taking one step into a crosswalk, and getting immediately hit by a bus.
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