I know what you are thinking, why should I watch Marvel’s Morbius following the bad reviews on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes?
Most times, what kills a movie is not its plot or storyline; it is mostly the reviews that such a movie gets. We see several movies get so much hype, but the film ends up being below par or not worth the watch; meanwhile, we also have the category of those who write off a movie. Meanwhile, the movie is actually great.
At the end of the day, a person’s review of a film is their view, and it should not be used to judge whether you should see a movie or you should write the movie off.
Before watching Morbius, I didn’t check the reviews, and I just entered the cinema with the mindset of enjoying a movie that I had not observed before. And it quite surprised me when I heard a friend say that most of the reviews he saw online about the movie were critical reviews, and that’s why he has been skeptical about watching the movie.
And this movie that I just watched quite surprised me because I laughed and I was captivated. So how did people have critical reviews on the movie? The action was top-notch. The storyline was good enough, even better than most of the movies that got released during the pandemic.
The visual quality was outstanding. The movie also had a bit of comic relief here and there, accompanied by suspense. So why was I seeing 16% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes? The movie had some questionable scenes, but it is a developing character in the Marvel Universe.
Marvel’s Morbius is a 2022 American Superhero film that is based on the Marvel Comics character Morbius, The Living Vampire, distributed by Sony Pictures and produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel.
Morbius is the third film in the Spider-Man Universe. The movie stars big names like Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, etc.
After they postponed its release for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they finally released the movie on the 1st of April 2022. The movie talks about 10-year-old Michael Morbius, who welcomes his surrogate brother, Lucien, whom he calls Milo.
They bond over their similar blood illness and their desire to be normal. 25 years later, Michael Morbius is seen performing illegal experiments with vampire bats hoping to connect their genes with his to cure himself of his illness.
The cure works, but at a cost, as the cure transforms Morbius into a vampire where he kills and drains the blood of the people on the ship on which the experiment was conducted. And when Morbius realizes what happened, he looks to make changes. His brother, Milo, hears and becomes furious when Morbius refuses to let him use the cure.
However, Milo steals the treatment and uses it on himself. However, he cannot control his bloodlust, and he kills others while trying to convince Morbius to embrace his powers as he has.
