what is going on it's all my movie fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again with a brand new movie review and today we're discussing morbius which will be
coming to theaters this coming weekend i got the opportunity to check it out early in theaters in
an imax theater no less and i'mma let you all know my thoughts again i know the word on the street
is this might be the worst comic book movie in the last decade the post credit scenes alone are
some of the worst of all time i'm gonna let you all know my thoughts and let you know it's worth
checking out all in this spoiler free review but before we dive into it make sure you're checking
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discussion in the comment section let me know if you were a fan of this character if you were
excited for this film but more importantly once you've seen it whether you loved it or you hate
it or you're somewhere in the middle let's just have a discussion about the production direction
performance visual effects the story the ending post-credits scenes let's talk about it all do
you want more from this character let's talk about it in the comments below so yes i am on
the interwebs i've heard all the negative buzz about the film i mean i literally read some of
the article about the director himself giving away the post-credits scene in an interview
which is just mind-boggling to me but hey from me to you word of advice you can see all that stuff
and even someone that reviews movies all the time you can take my opinion and you know base it on
however you want but don't allow my opinion to if you are genuinely excited for a film
go check it out leave all that baggage at the front door to theater and go in with an open mind
and make your own opinion so with that being said let's get into my thoughts starting off with the
positives first and foremost before i was a comic book fan a sony fan a spider-man fan
i was a horror fan a supernatural fan a vampire fan and i want to say it now
i think within this our 48 minute film there are moments far in between and sprinkle in there
is an interesting vampire film in this movie number one michael morbius a man who has this
rare blood disease and has been dedicating his life to not only cure himself but his best friend
and people that suffer from the same disease he does all these experiments he unfortunately
becomes a monster and the man that wants to save lives is now taking lives that within itself is
just fascinating and when the film focuses on that element they do a good job in doing so the duality
of michael become this monster and him just trying to fight the urges to kill people to eat and drink
blood but he wants to cure people i just found that to be interesting when it focuses on that
which is mostly highlighted within the first half of the film transitioning to me being a horror fan
by no means this is a scary movie i'm i'm i don't want to say that because what i might find scary
you might find not and vice versa i'm kind of desensitized towards certain horror but i will say
i didn't find it scary but it has some thrilling elements when we do see the monster the living
vampire chasing people eating people just like straight up killing people which by the way this
film doesn't really it this this should have been a rated r film but we'll talk about a little bit
later but when the film does trying to be more suspenseful more thrilling more horror i think
that it did have a good tinge of that when it tried to do that wouldn't try to focus on that
so those are some positives transitions to the performances jared leto i know a lot of people
have their personal opinions about him my opinion aside i think he's a great actor i thank god not
only that but he's won awards to prove that but neither here nor there i thought jared leto as the
actor gave me more in the role than what the role gave him and i mean that by the script which we'll
talk about in my criticisms but i think michael morbius just inherently for me my knowledge of the
character comes from the the spider-man animated series and i find the character to be interesting
but not all that interesting like i don't think at the end of the day morby should have his own film
but that's just my own personal thoughts on it but putting my personal aside i think that michael
morbius played by jared leto did a good enough job to make it believable transitioning to who
i think got the most to do in this film matt smith as milo who's the best friend of michael morbius
he was given a lot like he was given more than the lead of this film again i think inherently
michael morbis just isn't the most fascinating character but milo to me i'll compare this to
venom to let there be connors which i wasn't the biggest fan of i had fun with carnage but
woody harrison as the character you know cassidy before he becomes carnage what i wanted from that
i got with milo and i'll just kind of say that i really enjoyed matt smith i was very entertained
by that character there was uh some some things said about the visual effects being terrible
i didn't find to be that terrible i didn't find it to be great especially knowing the history
of this film that's been delayed so many times it should have came out two years ago it should
have been a lot cleaner but i thought the cgi of the monster the creation the transformation
some of the moments where he's flying through the air and doing all this superpower stuff
some of that stuff looked really clean but again it should have been a lot cleaner with the the
extra time this film had to be made so i would say again visually speaking it wasn't terrible it was
okay costuming i thought was pretty fire like i think from what i know from the character the reds
the blacks the purples i thought the costuming was good there's a pretty good score in this film and
i thought the direction was okay for the most part again when it's focusing on duality the character
the battling of the character and also a little bit of that thrilling horror elements of the film
getting to my criticisms fundamentally speaking i think vampire tales are very fascinating you
know someone that is once immortality someone that wants to crave blood someone that doesn't
want to do that there's so much to do within that realm of mythology of vampires the film doesn't
know what it wants to be now i think the first half of this film is very focused it has a very
interesting tale of again meeting him at a young age seeing what drives him which motivates him but
as the film unfortunately goes on i compare this movie to the mask not the jim carrey mass but the
sequel the son of the mask which was terrible this film has a lot of that in there there is just a a
mishmash of just tones and genre we have our two police officers which i think were meant to be
comic relief which a lot of the jokes and i was in a pretty packed you know press screening it fell
flat those cops shot you know tyrese i'm a fan of tyrese even with his absurdities outside of being
an actor this winter soldier arm i don't know if that was a suggestion by tyrese or director
or if it's comic book accurate pointless as well as his character and his partner was pointless
pointless again jared harris fantastic actor he's the scientist he's a doctor that's been
curing milo and michael since they were kids why he was in the film no idea great actor just wasn't
given much to do there's a relationship that's established in this film between michael morbius
and his other doctor played by adria ahona who again is a friend and becomes something more as
the film goes on i thought their chemistry was non-existent and i really just felt like they
just gave her one thing to do in the film and it happens later in the movie and i thought it was
kind of pointless which brings me to the script a film i can go with an okay script i can go with
a story that might not you know that might not be the most thought provoking film but when you
have like literally plot holes in your movie that contradicts what you set up literally moments ago
and i'm and i'll use an example without spoiling it michael morbius he's a man that cares for
people but you learn something very early about him in regards to ethnically speaking what he's
doing with this alternative blood and how he goes about his methods i'm like that that's
just a fundamental issue with the character as far as morally speaking how am i supposed to
root for this hero anti-hero when he's doing something that just seems fundamentally wrong
and then as the film progresses and we see the man become the monster
and this isn't a spoiler this is in the trailers when he's on the boat killing people
no remorse no remorse of what he just did and as the film kind of goes on it's just moments
of just like hallowness again it makes me say that the script is just bad because it's like
we're seeing this contradiction of characters and really there's no
humanity in in the characters no heart in the characters and don't care for the characters no
attention to detail to make me i'll just speak for myself i wasn't rooting for these characters
i just found them to be shallow and hallow and really kind of lack that human side again
jared leto tries to bring out the humanity but it's just not given to him which i think the
weakest element is the script is plot holes all over the place and it just contradicts itself and
contradicts itself over and over again the jokes are flat the story is just very basic and again
it's the mask the sun and the mask that's not good for this film but hey there's more i can
say without getting into the spoilers but overall it just didn't work for me as a narrative i just
found it to be quite boring as the film went on should you see it what is my score i'm gonna get
to that here in a second before i do so make sure you're liking sharing commenting and subscribing
to the channel look overall morbius when it does kind of focus on the duality of what makes this
person who wants to save lives now taking lives what does that do to him and i think when it does
focus on that it has an interesting narrative to tell i thought that the actors tried their best
that the visual effects were okay there are tinges of horror
it is a comic book movie in there and i will just address this i don't want to spoil it but i'll
just say this there was a rumor that everything as far as like is this tied to a spider-man universe
was taken away from the film that's not true i won't say what they kept in what they removed
but there are easter eggs that are lose to a greater universe i'll just say that but
overall this film is it has plot holes it is uh unfocused it is you know not a cohesive story
it is just lacks attention to detail so overall i'm gonna give this a two out of five should you
see it in theaters do what you will with your money i did uh you know see it on imax and some
of those visuals that i talked about was cool to see but i don't think this is worth like running
out to see in theaters open weekend check it out if you want on a tuesday five dollar discount or
when it comes out in blu-ray in 45 days so two out of five i don't think it's worth running out
six theaters in opening weekend but hey let's get into a discussion here that's my review
this is a spoiler discussion here this is talking about the uh the elephant in the room the post
credit scene so again you've been warned review is here we're gonna cap it off here and talk
about the post credit season i don't i don't even want to make a separate video for that because i
don't think this film is worth that energy and time so let's talk about it in this same video
post credit scene number one film ends we see michael keaton as adrian toombs aka vulture
the riff from spider-man no way home he comes into this universe and now is in a prison cell and he
doesn't know how he got there he just says hey i hope the food's better in this joint than it was
in my universe so he sees that the the news is out there there's a mysterious man in the jail cell
who's going to be let let free from jail because he doesn't they don't have records for him right
that's post criticism number one what the hell is that why who thought of that you know and you can
clearly see that they shot this postcard scene posts spider-man no way home because this film
was supposed to come out before that film so no way with you know the whole how were they able to
implement that so just fundamentally speaking it doesn't make any sense we know that venom
went back to his world why is michael morbius or not michael morris but why is adrian tune why does
he go back to his world doesn't make sense which brings us to post credit scene number
two which literally looked like they shot that last week because you can just tell jared leto
looks different they didn't even show michael keaton's face in this scene and by the way
how the hell did he get his suit when he was in jail like how did he go around to to make a suit
whatever he's a resourceful individual i guess and he was able to make these falcon wings that he did
from his universe he didn't have the you know the tinkerer to help him do so maybe this universe
listen logically didn't make sense but he goes up to michael morbius he says to him
you know i'm here i'm going to make the best of it while i don't know how much longer i'm going to be
in this universe but hey spider-man i i'm not a fan of him and uh i think it's good for us to
team up and michael morby is who again was the at the end of the film he's becoming his own person
he's going to become and he's going to fight this battle how he's going to fight to be this
anti-hero he's all of a sudden i'm intrigued why are you intrigued what what why why would you want
to and how are you all going to get back to this universe and how again it's just sony to me right
now is like the kid when you were in high school or middle school when you did a class project
and then the the you do all the work but then the other kid gets an a because you did all the work
marvel's doing all the heavy lifting with sony as far as their you know adaptation of
spider-man and tom holland and success of that character and whenever they are not attached to
the mcu you can just it's just not good i don't like the venom films i didn't like this film
we'll see what happens with craven and madam the web but based on this film the post credits scenes
and just the mishandling of the characters i'm not too hopeful but that's my thoughts
on the postcard scenes they were they just didn't make sense they just logically don't make sense
but hey again this was a spoiler portion just want to share that share my opinions let's talk
about in the comments your thoughts on the post credit scene your thoughts on the film as a whole
thank you all for watching this review i wish this film was a lot better but unfortunately
it just didn't work for me but again before you leave make sure to like share comment subscribe
hope you all are having a great day i will be seeing another film later today that i
hope that can cleanse this palette that i was left with with this film but again hope you're
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