Morbius

Morbius follows Micheal Morbius; a scientist suffering a rare disease who hopes to find a cure by experimenting on vampire bats.
And then acts all surprised when it turns him into a vampire.

Sadly there’s not much to this movie; the premise sounds less like a superhero plot and more like a monster movie, and I think it would have been a lot better if that aspect was played up.
Think the Fly by way of the wolf man; like what if the experiment seems to work at first, but he starts getting stronger and hungering more for blood. Then when murders start happening he starts getting scared that he’s responsible; blacking out and murdering people in his sleep.
However the movie has no sense of patience; it jumps from one moment to the next without giving the characters time to breath.

As a result it feels like there’s nothing to really connect to; because it doesn’t take it’s time to build up anything the characters feel undeveloped.
Though I will say it’s first time I’ve watched Jared Leto lately and not been annoyed by his performance, and Matt Smith at least seems to be enjoying himself.

I remember a lot from the trailers that didn’t show up in the movie, so I’m guessing that maybe this was a movie butchered in editing, but I can only speculate.
Maybe it’s worth revisiting if they put out a directors cut that puts the pacing back in.
It seems that most of the stuff cut relates to it possibly being in the MCU, but right now it feels like Sony doesn’t know where it’s going with the Spider-man property. It doesn’t even directly reference Venom like in the trailer.
Why does this have to be its own universe?
It’s not hard!
Just make the movie as it is, then at the end show Morbius meeting the Vulture. Why not? It worked for Split.
You don’t have to bring up the Avengers to put it in the same universe; but people seem so caught up on this idea of a shared universe being one big story that they’re not sabotaging themselves.
That’s more of a meta critique and don’t really change my opinion of Morbius as it’s own thing, though I suspect Sony’s indecision is the reason why this feel so weirdly edited.3

OVERAL
I was entertained but there’s nothing very spectacular about this one.
3 STARS

The lack of patience doesn’t let anything develop and the action scenes are fine for the most part, so there’s nothing to really object to or enjoy.
But there is promise for this character, so I hope they do better with him in the future.
At least with the fast pace I was never bored, so it’s got that going for it.