Click here to copy URL

Morbius

2022

Daniel Espinosa

Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Joseph Esson, Adria Arjona ...

4.5

8,390

Horror. Sci-Fi. Action The project is based on antihero Morbius the Living Vampire. Morbius is Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who suffered from a rare blood disease and attempted to cure himself to disastrous results. Instead of being cured, he became afflicted with a condition that was a form of vampirism — the thirst for blood, along with fangs and super strength — and fought Spider-Man. Over time, however, he became a slightly heroic figure in his own ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Boring Marvel film (...) The cacophonous ending sets up a sequel, but I hope it never sees the light of day. Actually, considering it's about vampires, maybe I do! (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It's just a shame this opening salvo takes itself too seriously to have much fun with the mayhem (...) The movie has too little to distinguish it from the second-tier (or maybe third?) Marvel pack, ending up as more of the same"	NEG
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"[It] isn't really a full movie, but it's fun (...) There's still one superpower 'Morbius' doesn't have: the license to green-light a sequel"	NEU
United Kingdom	Cathy Brennan Time Out	"A chore to sit through (...) Compelling characters are the lifeblood of a good superhero story, so its tragic that a film about two warring vampires in the Marvel universe is utterly bereft of them (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Todd Gilchrist AV Club	"A bland, competent, and safe superhero adventure that seems destined to be forgotten before its end credits finish rolling"	NEG
United States	Katie Rife rogerebert.com	"Enjoy the gasp as it escapes from your throat, dear viewer. Because you're not going to get another one, at least not from this movie. Better luck next time with the actual undead, we suppose (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"This consistently enjoyable franchise start-up manages to find enough new ways to tinker with the formula"	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"'Morbius' mostly surprises because of how very dull it is (...) Mostly unnecessary, oddly unoriginal, and soon quite forgettable indeed"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Neither original nor a good story (...) This reluctant vampire has so little flavor that he's closer to the invisible man"	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"At best, it's a serviceable placeholder until the next installment of this expanding universe. It gets the job done, but 'Morbius' is primarily a fangless affair (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"The 'Morbius' we've got is, plain and simple, a mess. If it's not the worst of these films, it's certainly the most anemic —and even die-hard fans are apt to feel completely drained by all of it"	NEG
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"It is bad, yes, but it's not even fun-bad; it's just kind of depressing. There's not a single thrilling, surprising, or entertaining moment in it, from start to finish (...) The nicest thing I can say about it is that it's short"	NEG
United States	Anna Smith Deadline	"[Not] terrible. Leto is good, the VFX work is slick, and there's modest entertainment to be had here and there. But it seems unlikely to please crowds and the mid-credit scenes are more baffling than exciting"	NEU
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A literary flair gives Jared Leto's vampire superhero surprising bite (...) It is a stylish, intriguingly toned story of a man trying to thwart mortality"	POS
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"'Morbius' does what it's supposed to, nothing more, and barely that. If only this living vampire had more of a pulse (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"[It] seems to be stuck among the more lackluster films from the early to mid 2000s (...) Rather than a fang-tastic time, 'Morbius' is just a soul-sucking effort (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A movie with some interesting performances and flashes of inspiration that never goes deeper than superficial storytelling and grows increasingly tiresome over the relatively brief running time (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sophie Butcher Empire	"Despite solid performances and flashes of promise, 'Morbius' is a flat, forgettable affair, failing to deliver an anti-hero origin story we can really sink our teeth into (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It really is an amazingly pointless and dumb film (...) Let's hope the extended Spider-Man universe extends far enough to include something more interesting than this (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Underwhelming Marvel horror (...) What starts as a fun mad-scientist saga ends up in the usual big battle, and the journey drags along the way"	NEU

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.