MORBIUS

Morbius, the living vampire, gets his live-action treatment with Academy Award Winner Jared Leto staring as Dr. Michael Morbius. Suffering from a rare blood disease, the doctor hopes the cure for his ailment lies within the blood of vampire bats he's recently brought back to New York from Costa Rica. Believing he's successfully found his cure and with the disease quickly winning the fight, like any good comic book storyline, the good doctor becomes the first human test subject. Upon waking up from the experiment, Michael wakes up as a vampire, starving for victims to feed his insatiable appetite. However, he's soon faced with the difficult conundrum: continue killing innocents to stay alive until he can figure out and fix his current state of affairs, or destroy his life's work and in the process, die himself. Coming from Sony, we once again have a safe, going through the motions comic book adaptation. Leto is entertaining as Dr. Morbius but doesn't bring his usual bravado to the film. The special effects need to be credited, especially the facial expressions when Morbius and his friend/villain Milo (played by Matt Smith) are constantly changing between human and vampire. Other than that, I found this at times to be a slow paced and boring offering, with a then rushed third act to compensate that quickly ties up loose ends before the credits role. Not a bad film, but not great either. Still waiting for Sony to give us a great comic book adaptation and after watching this, I'm still waiting. 6/10