Director: Daniel Espinoza
Writers: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal
Runtime: 104 mins.
2022
It took Morbius 0.5 seconds to get on my bad side. The film begins with radiating lines in teal, purple, and black. "It's 'M' for 'Morbius,'" I said to my companions. After a further five or so seconds of 'graphics,' we pull back to see that it was indeed 'M' for 'Morbius,' with the embellishment of two vampiric fangs jutting downward. Thus begins the film's visual motif of the letter M. You know. For Morbius.
Morbius introduces the world to the great scientist Michael Morbius, inventor of artificial blood, casual denier of the Nobel prize, haver of a degenerative disease. This disease is never named in the film, which gives the oh so serious Jared Leto and his good friend Milo (Matt Smith) an opportunity to pantomime cerebral palsy with plausible deniability.
