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55 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 59Paste MagazineJesse HassengerPaste MagazineJesse HassengerYet there’s some kind of invisible force here, hurrying things along in the hopes of a future team-up, making sure this feature film arrives more undead than alive.
- 58ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerMorbius, at best, will be remembered as the latest effort on Sony's part to make its nascent Sinister Six franchise happen. And, like "fetch," it's hard to see that happening.
- 42IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandThe film occupies a strange no-mans-land of the sprawling Spider-Verse, not charming like the "Spider-Man" films, not funny like the "Venom" films, and certainly not technically impressive like the animated "Into the Spider-Verse."
- 40Screen RantMolly FreemanScreen RantMolly FreemanDespite a fine performance from Jared Leto, Morbius is a painfully mediocre superhero origin story, delivering a shallow recreation of better movies.
- 40SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSlashfilmChris EvangelistaMorbius is the type of movie that fails to justify its own existence.
- 38New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiThe 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!
- 35TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeWe can confirm that Morbius is, really and truly, a movie. Granted, it’s not much of a movie, but it’s a movie nonetheless.
- 30VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanMorbius is a movie in which it’s clear that no one ever sent the script back for a rewrite with the instructions, “Please add a script.” As in: Add spice, add dialogue, add something so that the movie plays like more than a barely colored-in diagram.
- 20Rolling StoneDavid FearRolling StoneDavid FearIf 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.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt really is an amazingly pointless and dumb film: the good/bad setup between Morbius and Milo is muddled and cancelled by the not-especially-compelling moral struggle within Morbius himself. Both Leto and Smith have to keep doing the evil demonic face-change growling thing, and it is intensely silly. Let’s hope the extended Spider-Man universe extends far enough to include something more interesting than this.