Morbius Review Roundup -- Here's What Critics Are Saying
Morbius, the Living Vampire. The Spider-Man villain turned antihero has now gotten his own big-screen adaptation, part of Sony's effort to adapt its own unique parts of the Spider-Man universe separate from the MCU. Morbius is an odd choice for his own movie, given that he's a literal monster, and the result is not pretty.
Reviews have begun to appear just ahead of the theatrical release on April 1. Critics have largely panned the release, with many agreeing that it suffers from tone problems, and many critical of the lead performance by Jared Leto. GameSpot's own Morbius review in particular takes a critical eye to how Sony is fumbling its own attempt to build a universe.
«Sony's arm of the MCU is, to put it lightly, a bit of an odd duck,» Mason Downey wrote. «Tom Hardy's charming and unexpected Venom may have paved the way for some interest in the superhero-less superhero universe, but since a spectacularly fizzled post credits scene teased and then immediately revoked his participation in the greater MCU, things have been confusing at best. It's not entirely clear where the Sony anti-heroes fit into the bigger plan or what that bigger plan even is.»
You can see a sampling of review scores and excerpts below, and more critical consensus here at GameSpot sister site Metacritic.
«Like Venom: Let There Be Carnage before it, the whole of Morbius feels like a feature-length teaser for a credits scene to scene that promises more interesting things in the future--but what those more interesting things actually are is anyone's guess. What is clear, unfortunately, is that Sony doesn't actually know what made the original Venom garner such an unexpected cult following to begin with and desperately wants to recreate the same
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