Morbius

"A new Marvel legend arrives."

2022 1h 45m EN

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5.9

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15%

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5.1

IMDB

★5.9TMDB · 5,032🥫15%Rotten Tomatoes●35Metacritic★5.1IMDB · 174,470

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Synopsis

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Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.

“A new Marvel legend arrives.”

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Cast

Jared Leto
Dr. Michael Morbius
Matt Smith
Milo
Adria Arjona
Martine Bancroft
Jared Harris
Dr. Emil Nicholas
Tyrese Gibson
Agent Simon Stroud
Al Madrigal
Agent Rodriguez
Michael Keaton
Adrian Toomes
Zaris-Angel Hator
Anna

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Writers: Ferenc Nothóf, Robert Consing, Dwayne Turner
Languages: English, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $75M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish.

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4 / 8

CAST

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275+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Daniel Espinosa, shot by Oliver Wood. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jon Ekstrand. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Pietro Scalia shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Jared Leto and Matt Smith and Adria Arjona carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Daniel Espinosa directs. Oliver Wood behind the camera. Jon Ekstrand scores. Pietro Scalia cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $75M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Released 4 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish.
4275+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Daniel Espinosa, shot by Oliver Wood. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Jon Ekstrand. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Pietro Scalia shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jared Leto and Matt Smith and Adria Arjona carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "A new Marvel legend arrives.".
10IMDB entry: tt5108870 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Oliver Wood
Original score: Jon Ekstrand
Editing: Pietro Scalia
Production design: Stefania Cella
Costume design: Cindy Evans
Makeup / hair: Louise Young
VFX supervisor: Joel Behrens
Sound: Beau Borders
Stunt coordinator: Douglas Crosby
Runtime: 105 min · 1h 45m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $75,000,000
Box office: $167,635,712
Return: 224% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Morbius (2022)
Rotten Tomatoes: 15% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 35/100
IMDB rating: 5.1/10 · 174,470 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

3 wins & 4 nominations total

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Manuel São Bento2022-03-31
★ 3/10
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/morbius-spoiler-free-review "Morbius is yet another disaster from the Sony-Marvel shared universe. Despite good performances from Jared Leto and Matt Smith and even a couple of visually captivating action sequences, the formulaic screenplay that seems to originate from the beginning of the century ruins everything in its path. From the predictability and zero creativity of the main plot to the heavy reliance on uninteresting, unnecessary exposition, Daniel Espinosa finds his most significant problem in the blatant lack of care in the treatment of the characters. The narrative logical lapses are too many to ignore and even amplified by extremely messy editing, a third act wrapped in an unfathomable blend of CGI, and a plagiarized score. One of the most embarrassing productions by a major studio in recent years." Rating: D
CinemaSerf2022-04-04
★ 6/10
I can't go lower than 3 stars because ever since "Alexander" (2004) I've had a tiny crush on Jared Leto, and some of the trails for this made him look swarthy and hot too. To be fair, also, he is not afraid of spending a great deal of time in the make up chair, as we saw in "House of Gucci" (2021) and frequently see here. Sadly, though, after my appreciation of Jared's eye candiness wore off, what I was left with was Luke Evans' "Dracula Untold" (2014) just without Charles Dance, and a hint of "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (from 1931). The imagery is fine, the film looks super - but so what. Marvel/Columbia should be doing that anyway. It's the story. It's so thin. Matt Smith is lightweight at the best of times, and together with Adria Arjona's really unremarkable contribution as Leto's sidekick "Dr.Bancroft" and some sparing interventions from the other Jared in this film (Harris) this all just lollops along as if it were just the money-no-object pilot episode of a drama series that will struggle to get a commission. I love the genre, but the words barrel, bottom and scraped came to mind pretty early on. Sadly the handsome Mr. Leto reminds me of Eric Bana - very easy on the eye but not good enough to carry a film.
Leno2022-04-08
★ 5/10
Not a disaster as others seem to imply but definitely disappointing for a movie of such high budget. Morbius is a kind of a vampire Batman-Frankenstein mix. In the search of the cure for a rare and highly-debilitating blood decease, Morbius (a genius doctor) find a cure that has a terrible cost. His sickness is pretty much gone and he attains super powers, but also feel an insatiable lust for blood that can't be fully satiated by artificial blood. The movie revolves around Morbius trying to remedy the consequences of the evil he unleashed to the world. While the cinematography is pretty decent, the plot really sucks. In the end of the movie, there are too many open questions (and inconsistencies) in the plot. The movie seems to end very abruptly without any decent climax, and many of the secondary characters that I expected would play an important role in the resolution of the conflicts, seem to have been completely forgotten. Sony/Marvel does need better writers for their movies...