The opening of Morbius works quite well in establishing a good background story and friendship between two sickly children that endures into adulthood, with scientist Jared Leto and wealthy Matt Smith seeking a cure. The wheels come off pretty quickly once vampire-Morbius arrives on the scene in a whirl of dodgy CGI and a curious lack of menace. Indeed, the film feels over after the first half-hour but trudges on regardless. Morbius is an uncomfortable mix of deadly seriousness and limp dialogue, and quite evidently the film needed to choose which direction to take, as it veers between serious melodrama and high camp - sometimes in the same scene. Leto tries to make the character feel sympathetic to the audience by deploying his trademark sensitivity but he fails to nail a sense of threat, and Matt Smith's character would have been far better served with a consistently truly malevolent performance of which the actor is perfectly capable, rather than the louche silliness sometimes on display here, and all the other characters barely register. Two mid-credits sequences set up an unsurprising sequel, which would need to be far stronger than this simplistic 'good vs. evil with a mild love interest' story that largely fails to engage here.
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