Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) has a rare blood disease that has left him close to death his entire life. During his pursuit for a cure he turns himself into a living vampire and must face into his new urge to drink blood. 

Before I proceed to eviscerate Sony’s latest attempt to cash in on their Spider-Man license by expanding into his coterie of villains and heroes, I want to start by saying I am a huge Spider-Man comic fan and I really like this character. Perhaps that may play into the reason why I have been unimpressed with Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage but Morbius commits an even worse crime. It is incredibly dull and makes little sense. So before I dig out some comics  to cleanse the memory of what I just saw let me quickly tell you why this is so bad. 

The layout is simple. We have a flashback to Morbius and his new best friend Milo as children being looked after by kindly doctor Dr. Nicholas (Jared Harris). The two of them decide they are the few against the many just like the Spartans of old and when Morbius develops his cure Milo, now all grown up and played by Matt Smith has a different approach to how to manage his thirst for blood. A battle between the two brews whilst the FBI are on their tail. 

The problems though are rife. 

Matt Smith and Jared Leto are acting for two different films. Smith is histrionic and pantomime levels of evil. Leto is broody and smouldering. The fact that Smith’s Milo constantly stalks Morbius makes little real sense once he has what he wants. At one point he mutters something about wanting to make him see that he is wrong but how he intends on doing that is not clear. 

Morbius love interest Dr. Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona) seems like she is only there to be a damsel in distress and a set up for a future film. 

Whilst the FBI agent’s basically do nothing at all. Tyrese Gibson plays the serious one and Al Madrigal plays the comic relief. Neither seem to get any time to achieve either of these things. 

The final showdown is of course an incomprehensible CGI mess and hugely underwhelming. 

There also appear to be scenes or plot missing. At one point Morbius steals a lab from some thugs only to be back at Horizon labs in the next scene and never to use the lab he stole. Whilst there are plenty of character motivations that seem odd or not fleshed out. 

Ultimately its biggest sin is that it is monumentally dull. 

Post credit sting alert – there are two and both have finished by the mid point of the credits. Both are absolutely shocking and sit alongside Venom: Let There Be Carnage for being incredibly bad story decisions. Whilst the second one was clearly filmed with two different people not in the same location as each other. 

Awful.