June 4th, 2022
Common Sense Media Age: 14+ Violence 4/5 Language 3/5
My Age Recommendation: 13+ (Due to strong bloody violence throughout with some gore, brief strong language, and some disturbing images).
I saw reviews for this online when it came out and I initially thought "there is no way this movie is as bad as everyone is claiming". I mean people were saying if they could give it 0/5 stars they would, and I knew I had to watch it and see for myself. The story follows Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientific genius with a terminal disease that affects his blood and is looking for a cure. One day he thinks he found it and it involves injecting a special form of bat DNA into the patient. When he tries it on himself, he gains superhuman strengths similar to a bat such as echolocation, the ability to fly, and super strength. The problems with this are that he sometimes cannot control his powers and that he needs blood to survive. His childhood friend with the same diseases finds this injection and gives it to himself and decides to wreck havoc on the world. When all the dead bodies are found, Morbius is to blame and he must clear his name to survive. Will he clear his name, or will his former friend continue to kill and kill again? Let me say, this has to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I spent an hour and a half with Morbius and I still feel like I know nothing about him. The character development is horrible and none of the characters were developed by the end of the movie. The plot sucks and is full of holes, and the extremely flat characters don't help with this at all. There is no chemistry between any of the characters, even with Morbius and his childhood friend Milo, and this makes emotional scenes just laughable. The worst part of this movie is the amount of unexplained moments in the film. There's a time where someone dies, and then all of a sudden they are alive again. The logistics of Morbius' powers are not explained at all, and some moments at the end of the film you see him use certain powers that you did not know he had all along which leads me to believe the script just made up powers to suit the scene around it. Overall, this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I hope no one decides to watch this.
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