Morbius: The Worst Movie In The MCU

Marvel is known for making fantastic movies for people’s entertainment. It’s very rare for them to make a movie that their fans don’t enjoy, but when it comes to Morbius, the list of good things that happen may be shorter than the movie itself. After a whopping one hour and 45 minutes of excruciating pain and a story that makes no sense, I wish I could get a refund on my ticket. And for those who haven’t seen the movie, there’s no worry because you haven’t missed much with Marvel’s latest installment in the MCU. Jared Leto, who plays Morbius, did an excellent job playing his role in the movie, but the gaps in the story and the predictableness of the film made it seem like the movie cut out every five minutes.

The movie starts with a young Michael and his friend Milo in a treatment facility due to their rare blood disease when all of a sudden, Milo passes out and starts to lose consciousness. Then Michael comes to the rescue and fixes a complex medical machine with a spring from a pen, which we later find out took the doctors two years to make. This was the beginning of the plot gaps because there was no prior information or backstory about him being a child genius. After this, the movie skips through 30 years without explaining or providing background knowledge. In his adulthood, we find out Michael is a very successful doctor whose claim to fame was his invention of artificial blood. Although he loves helping people, he can’t keep his mind off of the problem at hand. Whenever Michael is not working, he experiments with bat blood and DNA manipulation in the lab. He’s constantly doing tests on rats until he finally conducts a successful trial. So when he’s successful, his next step is to try this completely unsafe and dangerous experiment on himself without hesitation.

Another example of the horrendous plot occurred when we found out Morbius could fly. He has some of the normal powers a vampire has, but he can fly. I found this out when he jumped in front of a moving subway and levitated in front of it. He had complete control of his body and could not be touched by the train. The movie, at this point, had also become very predictable; it was obvious from the beginning how his friend Milo was the villain. Having the same disease as him, it was well known he wanted the serum to cure himself. But for some reason, he was just able to walk into a secret laboratory and steal a powerful drug that turns you into a vampire. Along with this, there was no motive behind his rampage. He simply stated that he was free and wasn’t helped by his disease anymore.

The movie was terrible, but it also did terribly at the box office. In fact, we were the only ones in the theater, granted the showtime wasn’t the busiest. While we were at the movie theater, we asked some questions to an employee about the turnout of the movie. The employee had mentioned that “The movie has not attracted as many people as we had thought, nothing compared to Batman or Spiderman.” She also said, “The excitement towards the movie doesn’t seem to be there.” This is understandable due to the “Rotten Tomatoes” score of 17 percent, which is underwhelming.
In conclusion, the character is pretty cool, and I thought Jared Leto did a great job with what he was given, but the plot leaves many questions unanswered to viewers. Marvel tried too hard to advertise this movie and should have kept it under review for longer. Overall, I would give this movie a two out of ten.