Morbius has a 200% in Rotten Tomatoes its the most movie ever

People that say "it's not a well known character, it's just his origin story," need I remind you that guardians of the galaxy was a poorly known comic name when the film came out, but was a smash hit because *it was written well.* Well written films do well. Poorly written ones do not. Morbius is not a well written films.

I really want a Morbius directors cut, because I have a bad feeling that a vastly superior version of this film exists.

When I went to try and see this in theaters, my attendant looked at me said, "listen, Spider Man No Way Home is still playing and starts 10 minutes after Morbius. Why don't I just give you a ticket to an actual good film?" And so that's how my Morbius experience went.

Guys Morbius is so freaking, I can’t describe how absolutely it is

My favourite part was when Jared Leto yelled "It's Morbin' time!" and all the bats joined up to form a Mighty Morbin' Morbius.

I liked when Morbius said “It’s Morbin time!” Before attacking the bad guys

It can't be mentioned enough how much this movies absolutely ruins the character of Vulture. He was such a well rounded and cool villain in Homecoming and in this he straight up feels like a Saturday Morning cartoon Villain.

I literally don't understand *how* we're still getting bad comic book movies at this point. Especially when its just the same mistakes over and over.

Matt Smith is incredible. Imagine if he was cast to play Morbius in the MCU, as an opening villain for Spider-Man: Far From Home, and then with a big villain role in Blade as a science based Dracula that Blade can't kill as easily. Such a waste.

Ok but did I miss something or did they never bring up the fact that Milo is not his name it’s Lucian. In the beginning moribus just straight out refuses to call him by his real name and tells us that their have been many milos that he can’t even remember the first one. Like why is Milo/lucian not more upset at this. They never call him by his real name ever.

It's movies like this that kill my hype for a TASM3 or Tobey Spider-Man 4, because despite how great they were in NWH, you remember that Sony would butcher them if given the chance.

Memeing on Morbius is vastly more entertaining than actually watching it

Morbius definitely shows that Sony has no idea what they're doing with their remaining characters that are connected to Spider Man. If this is how they treat the Living Vampire, a character that I wasn't particularly a fan of, I'd hate to see what they'd do to characters in Spider Man's universe that I actually like such as Madame Web or Kraven The Hunter.

Fun fact: Morbius is one of the movies to ever exist!

Morbius definitely deserved WAY better than this. Because of this movie, people are now going to treat him as nothing but a complete joke, and that is really sad considering how absolutely terrifying he looks in the comics.

I so genuinely hope that the vulture end credits scene is ignored and this movie has no effect on the MCU proper, like seriously just have Vulture show up in the MCU again and have him be like "That Morbius guy was weird" please

I did not get the impression that Vulture was going to be involved in this movie for more than one Easter egg short scene that just painfully shows how desperate Sony are to tie themselves to the MCU

Dude you just can’t comprehend the greatness of a cinematic masterclass like Morbius. Give up…

I’m still wondering why they thought it was a good idea to cast Jared Leto when everybody hated his last Iteration of one of the greatest comic book character ever.

My favorite part of the movie is when he says “It’s morbin time!!”

Never have I cared less about a spoiler warning...

I don't even remember Morbius ever being that popular of a comic. Oddly, it's one of those properties Marvel keeps trying to bring back.

Dude your channel is blowing up. How do you do it! Great consistency

Matt Smith needs a new agent. He's so talented but just keeps ending up in shit roles The Rings of Akhaten speech was one of the most beautifully acted scenes in all of Doctor Who, right up there with 10’s ‘death’

I legit thought everything people said about Michael Keaton being in the movie was a joke. Can’t believe Sony is this clueless

Really enjoying this wave of my favorite KZfaqrs roasting this movie. Can confirm this has been a much more valuable use of my tim.

The way you talk about this makes it sounds like it could’ve been/is amazing.

If there was any blatant example of a studio desperately trying to hold onto a character's film rights by exploiting the hell out of its fanbase that wasn't Fox's Fant4stic, this Sony Spider-Man MCU-adjacent whatever franchise is a prime example. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if freaking Kenny Kong got a solo movie just because

Morbius is not only an insult to the art of filmmaking, humanity, and God. It is an abomination. It killed my parents, ate my dog and set my house on fire. -5000000/10

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I never thought I would leave a Marvel movie feeling sleepy

These are all lies. Morbius is the ONLY movie (and will be the only movie) to EVER sell ONE MORBILLION tickets. Don't believe these LIES. #MORBIUSSWEEP

Revoke Sony's Marvel card. It's laughable how Sony is still on their plan since TASM 2 disappointed them to build out this Sinister Six-verse despite critics and audiences wanting nothing to do with their cynical, lazy, effortless and insulting handling of the Spider-Man IP. It's no wonder they keep Feige on the payroll for their MCU films because they'd be completely lost without him. So funny as they try building an entire cinematic universe off the one character they gave away to Disney and can't use. Avi Arad was booed out of Marvel Studios and needs to be as far away as possible from the Marvel films.

The video game analogy was spot on, got a feeling similar to when I played cyberpunk on release week on the OG ps4 from when I watched Morbius lol

It was actually my friend who pointed out that when milo first shows up as a kid to the special hospital he comes in a very expensive looking car.

Thanks for the Michael Keaton intro, he really was the only reason I was going to watch this movie. You save me money, thanks man 👍

This could've worked with several tweaks: 1) More on screen research instead of telling 2) No synthetic blood 3) Develop the bond between Morbius and that little girl 4) Have his treatment of her somehow lead to his transformation, for instance by synthesizing a serum that could end up healing her but is also highly volatile, therefore he chooses to inject himself because they suffer from the same disease 5) Keep "Milo" in the past, an old wound that seemingly informs all of Morbius' decisions because he died 6) No villain per se other than his bloodlust and the ensuing tragedy of having to prey on innocent people (maybe even by putting the little girl in harm's way and eventually either killing a relative of hers or whomever right in front of her eyes) 7) A theme that makes the narrative stand out more; I'd opt for self-deception: while the first research-y part of the movie is obviously filtered through Michael's POV with morally questionable decisions being justified as necessary (with subtle hints in other character's reactions to his conduct), they could be recontextualized after the girl sees him for the monster he's not only become but has been all along, i.e. he used to experiment on terminally ill patients to further his own research and extended this practice to actual treatments by determining whom amongst two people to save based on their value (since the very concept of having value has been instilled into him by the doctor back in the day and he distorted it in his mind) + the movie we got already touched on Michael's habit of calling multiple boys "Milo" in that hospital, so why not go the extra mile by revealing that he didn't actually care for any of them but rather daydreamed about the perfect friendship and deluded himself into having had empathy over 30+ years?

Thanks for the review. Saved me watching the movie at the cinema. Will instead wait for it to come onto a streaming platform.

I like how you actually explain why some things didn't work and at least say that it could have been really good but they just gave us a generic movie, rather than just saying it sucks, I for one liked the different abilities they explored, and I liked the plotline of his moral code being tested, but it just didn't meet my expectations

I have never enjoyed Matt Smith as an actor until this film. His dedicated contribution as Milo is fun and the only redeeming part of this flat, incomplete and lazy impersonation of a story

Don't worry The New Marvel Legend that is Morbius will keep giving the writers new work, with next project being Madame Web. This universe is good hands, everyone clearly wants them to make TASM3 right... Of course you do, Morbius Sweep!

That one scene where Morbius said it's "Morbin' time" and summoned a Morbzoid made with live bats and flew Godzilla up in the air and dropped it on the pointy top of the Eiffel Tower was lit 🔥🔥🔥

You knocked this review right outta the park. This were my thoughts and feelings about the movie. And, I agree that Michael Keaton scene in the trailer was a bait and switch because I wanted to see interaction and meaning behind Michael Keaton's role with Morbius. And what happened to his love interest after he bit her? That was very vague to me as a Marvel movie fan.

The fact that you called Michael Keaton, "The Jack Frost Star," just warms my heart. Btw, you mentioned it in the video, but it would be interesting to see your take on Ben Affleck's Daredevil, as well as its spin-off, Elektra, with Jennifer Garner.

Everyone I know that likes Jared Leto says "He a good actor. Have you seen Requiem For a Dream?" He is the M Night Shyamalan of acting.

HAHA! Very funny late April Fools video! You really had me going for a second there! Pointing out flaws in Morbius, what a silly concept. There aren't any!

I'm sad to hear how trashy this movie is. When I was in my early twenties I would collect all of the Morbius comics because I love vampires. So this is just ☹️. When it first came about I was so excited to see it I love Jared Leto I love 30 seconds to Mars, but I did not think that this movie would be awful

Let this be the end of the Sonyverse. Vulture is one of my fave MCU villains and they just ruined him.

I remember a comment on one of the Marvel subreddits when the trailer with Michael Keaton in it debuted that said something like, “I’ve never seen one studio hold another studio up at gunpoint before.” It feels painfully obvious in retrospect that this film was part of Sony’s big power play to seize back control over the Spider-Man universe when the initial deal between Sony and Marvel Studios lapsed after Endgame. If it weren’t for Tom Holland’s last minute appeal to Bob Iger to continue negotiations, who knows what Sony would have done with Holland’s version of Spider-Man in this film. I honestly can’t say if it would have made for a better or worse film, but as it is this film is clearly a casualty of studio execs throwing their weight around without any care for crafting a film capable of standing on its own without Spider-Man behind it.

"Theres not gonna be a patch for Morbius" Well lets see if they cash in a second time on a directors cut like Justice League :)

Exactly ! I hope there's a true cut to make this movie some justice .

They should've done instead a movie about the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man, also known as the Superior Foes, an almost comedic team of B-C list villains related to Spider-Man, but most of the time they fight between themselves or get involve in bigger scenarios with other characters.

I rewatched all the trailers after I watched the movie and I remember why I was so excited for Morbius. In the trailers it paints an entirely different movie the trailers have so many scenes and tons of dialogue just void from the movie it is insane. I wanna watch the movie the trailers were showing not whatever garbage we got in theaters. Just watching the trailers makes me upset that we won't ever get to see what was originally intended for this movie. Edit: Also thanks for not blaming Leto like he isn't terrible at acting idk why people keep saying he is the worst actor to ever exist just cause he was bad as Joker.

Sony's current movie model is "Let's give an amazing actor a shitty script, and let's see if they can make a gem out of it."

I've been watching your videos for years but the "loads of free gifts and prizes" mentioned at the end of each and every video never materialize. PS Love your stuff sir.

Morbius did everything it could in the first 35 minutes to make it feel like it belonged in 2002. The last 30 minutes made me question how much footage never made it to the theater in favor of promoting a few incomprehensible end credit scenes for a sequel that should never be made. Side note: I watched Blade 2 (2002) last night, not my first time seeing it, but I skipped the first 45 minutes as an experiment. When a movie does so little to get you immersed in the opening act or feels loosely based on something, skipping to the chase makes your viewing a lot more bearable/less distracting.

Honestly this movie could have been a great movie about the struggles of the main character morbius who struggles with his inner monster and his craving for blood 🩸 which he must stop him and fight to regain his humanity and must destroy the beast inside him which caused him to live in a world basically full of blood

We have reached the point where movies feels like "real live actions" of a patchwork of video games cutscenes put together without all the world & plot building you would had found ingame outside the said cutscenes .

I loved watching morbius, i left my family to move into a hotel closer to the theatre. I have watched every showing of morbius every day for the past months from the release date.

The mid-credits scene takes the cake as the worst in any superhero movie I've seen. Did the writers even watch Homecoming?

This movie is so incredibly bad. It’s almost unbelievable.

Amazing Spider-Man two by Sony did the same thing. They ruined the entire story by showing all the sinister six equipment in the lab. It was a huge short cut to each or their origins. Sony is always moving too fast instead of focusing on a single quality movie.

Excellent review.

What I really hate is how transparently artificial the plot structure is. Events happen for no reason other than that's what it says in the script. The love interest gets conked on the head once, and she's unconscious for weeks, just because the script doesn't need her for a while. Morbius is running from the cops, then one of them says, "stop!" and he does, and comes quietly to jail, just so he can have a talk with Milo there. You can see the filmmakers' hands at all times, jerking the characters around like puppets, and that's easily the worst immersion killer.

I think vulture was supposed to be in the movie more prominently but no way home may have caused Sony to change how much vulture was supposed to be

lmao i forgot about the little girl. the thing that threw me off was when morbius meets his doctor girl friend on the bus. he has a hood because he's a wanted criminal, but then they go to the restaurant and he has his hood off and his face showing

This whole Morbius idea seems to stem from around the release of Amazing Spider Man 2, when Sony were planning on releasing all these spin off movies. Some of them being Aunt May, Kraven the Hunter, Venom, Spider Gwen, etc. This seems to be a remnant from that time period and after Venom and recent Spider Man movies, Sony greedily put Morbius Venom and whatever else they could into production. The Raimi Spider Man graffiti image and Keatons Vulture in Morbius where inserted into the script or production design, inconsequentially.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Morbius. The conflict and character development is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of classic English dramatic literature, most of the weight of the scenario will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Michael's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these scenes, to realise that they're not only humorous- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence, people who dislike Morbius truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the depth in Morbius' quote: "I am Venom. Just kidding, I'm Dr. Michael Morbius at your service." which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Jared Leto's genius wit unfolds itself exclusively on the cinematic screens this April 1st. What fools.... how I pity them.

Thing is. The first morbius trailers dropped not long after the first venom movie. Venom 2 got pushed back, launched, and morbius still had like... a six month gap between that and this. that to me was the biggest red flag going in. Jared Leto being the other big red flag. Dude like... 'i'm a method actor!' Why is it method actors are always using that method to be an asshole and a diva everyone has to cater to?

I’ve heard there was a lot of changes made throughout the last few months, the studio had more say over what happens than the director. They can’t allow the film to be aimed more at adults over kids so the blood and violence scenes were all changed as well as others.

Minor note, but as someone who travels a lot, I can also tell in that subway it looks like a New York train but the station looks more like the London Underground

"What went wrong with Morbius?" "Everything..."

nice piece of satire. now please release the video where u explain why it is the best film ever made.

One explanation to fix can be that the vulture which returned was the vulture of some other universe which is a look alike of mcu vulture . When nwh started all different villains started coming into the mcu . But when the spell was fixed , they started going back , so the same happened to this alternate vulture . But when he went back he ended up in morbius' universe instead of his due to reasons .

A huge example is the speech where he refuses the Nobel prize. The trailer shows him walking up and getting to the podium. In the actual film, they just show him standing and then everyone kind of tsk tsks him about it afterwards. I was checked out after that.

Speaking of the animated Morbius from the 90s the only post credit screen i would want would be with Wesley Snipes and Halle Berry. This would solidify the movie as a bad 2000s movie in a universe everyone and no one wants to see!

There has to have been a whole other movie on the editing room floor. It dropped so many hints toward some money laundering scheme that Milo may have been in on, and never mentioned it again. Like how Milo had a Russian guard stationed at his home to keep an eye on him, or how he went to a bar that the cops noted was attended by crooked Wall Street brokers. Or how Morbius overhears two street thugs trying to pass off counterfeit bills at the cafe, and then takes over their underground lab by force for his own "science-y" reasons. And the scatter shot ways in which Morbius' vampire nature came out was hard to follow. Martine sliced her finger open on a can opener, and he gets weird about it, but bystanders in the subway, or the cops that Milo attacks have their throats ripped out, and he doesn't go into some frenzy. You're right that the big choice between artificial blood and drinking real human blood is never resolved, considering he keeps checking that watch and the time keeps counting down, but even with those dire terms of mortality literally counting down to his death, that gets abandoned as well. Not sure what the reason was, but with the opening date getting pushed back two years, and then trying to shoehorn their movie into the Spider-Man/MCU franchise, I think they missed their window and decided to scrap the original idea. I bet it ran afoul of the same over correction that Falcon and the Winter Soldier series did, due to the studio's aversion to discussing vaccines and virulent diseases with ghastly side effects, so they probably didn't want to take any heat from sensitive viewers and critics. And that fear of having an unmarketable product has led them to that very outcome they were trying to avoid. I would like to see what they left out, or an original screenplay. Whatever it was has to be better than this mess.

I completely missed the announcement, trailers etc. I didn't even knew there was a morbius movie.

my main exposure to Morbius is the Midnight Sons event in the nineties. He was actually a fairly interesting character. Like a cross between Louis from Interview with the Vampire and a better than average nineties antihero

If you want to run the dreams of a franchise down just hire Jared Leto..

Woh woh woh, you can't be saying that about the best film, not only ever made, but ever WILL be made

What is this obsession with end credits scenes?! Sony acts as if it's the secret to Marvel's success, when in reality that secret is to make good movies!

I just came back from seeing it, I thought it a fun adventure that didn't stick around for too long. A good popcorn flick.

If you need protection from a shapeshifting anti-hero, *BETTER CALL SAUL!*

Some studio execs think it's wrong to make the audience angry, scared or conflicted to protect our feelings, but they are wrong: feeling powerful emotions is why we pay for movie tickets. They cut out the catharsis when they should be doubling it.

The mcu has made it a RULE to make movies to promote the next one. So I blame them for messing with studio confidence

The main thing I took from this is that I really would have loved to have seen the movie as it was originally conceived before the studio got its mitts on it. It sounds like it would have been awesome.

Right on time buddy. I've been waiting for your take on this hot mess.

I know almost nothing about Marvel but I'm glad I wasn't the only person disappointed by this movie. It feels like every other superhero origin story, ever, except with bats. All I could think the whole time was "If Batman got bit by a radioactive bat, would he be Batmanbat or Manbatman?"

A solo origin story about a minor Spiderman villain that most people haven't even heard of before and that hasn't been relevant in the Spiderman comics for at least 15 years and with no spiderman in the movie. Is there any wonder the movie failed ?

I think milo should have been revealed as the killer at the very end... they could have kept up the whole morbius killed a nurse and others when he blacked out. It would have put more of a importance on him finding a blood substitute and him pushing away friends to keep them safe.

“Ben Affleck’s Daredevil feels like Spider Man 2 compared to Morbius” Now that, that is a good ROAST to this lame ass movie. The thing that worries me the most is that if Sony keeps making films in this quality, i am concerned what will happen if TASM 3 is released and Sony didn’t even try to make it GOOD

I like how the two Greeks have British and American accents. Also, I couldn't find any explanation of Milo's wealth, either.

I don’t know much about morbius apart from what I saw in the animated show. Isn’t a big part of his turmoil that he’s a young guy? Peter’s age? He’s very good looking and his personality revolves around that. So it makes it interesting that his powers change the way he looks permanently. It’s so dum to see Jared Leto turn on the “ugly face” and easily turn it off

It's just like a train wreck where I can't stop watching it.

if there are 10000 morbheads i am one of them, if there are 10 morbheads i have few allies, if there is only one morbhead i am alone, if there are no morbheads remaining i am long dead.

This is bordering on sadism reviewing this and recent Simpsons episodes.

Morbius was always a good side character for making appearances in Spider-Man , Daredevil and Blade series. I’m not surprised it didn’t do well.

If a doctor in a lab coat showed up at my bedside with that scraggly patchwork beard, I'd hit the call button for security because that guy is not a real doctor.