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Dr. Michael Morbius ( Jared Leto ), the title character of Columbia Pictures’ MCU-adjacent semi-horror movie “Morbius,” is a “living vampire.” What, you might be thinking, does that mean? Did the good doctor become a vampire without having to die first? Why, yes—he fused his DNA with vampire bat DNA in an attempt to cure the rare, fatal blood disease that’s been plaguing him since childhood. (What disease, you ask? You sweet, innocent child.) The fusion gave him super speed, super strength, echolocation abilities, and an appetite for blood that’s only partially sated by the artificial substitute for which Morbius rejects a Nobel Prize at the beginning of the film. (Why? Again, you’re asking too many questions.) In short, he’s a science vampire . (So, like if Batman was a doctor, then? Wrong universe, but close.)

So that means the usual rules of vampirism don’t apply, right? Yes and no. Loxias Crown ( Matt Smith ) Morbius’ best friend turned greatest adversary, does turn himself into a vampire using Morbius’ formula. But we don’t know if he died in the process. That sequence is left off screen, for reasons presumably tied to the many reshoots and delays that hampered “Morbius” on its journey to the big screen. And other characters die and come back to life after tasting Morbius’ blood, a supernatural transformation that doesn’t involve—as Morbius himself puts it at one point—”science stuff” at all. In short, the nature of Morbius’ affliction is messy and contradictory and not worth thinking about for more than a few seconds, a quality that extends throughout Daniel Espinosa ’s misbegotten superhero/horror hybrid.

All the greatest metaphorical hits are present in Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless ’ script, as well as in Leto’s performance: Vampirism as illness? Check. Vampirism as addiction? Yup. Don’t ask for much in terms of actually developing these themes, however, as the film’s approach is to point and yell, “look over there!” whenever things get complicated. A superhero whose murders are the direct result of his attempts to help people presents a complex moral dilemma. But you wouldn’t know it from this film, which takes any intriguing elements of its title character’s story and flattens them into clichéd grandstanding about the obligation of the privileged few to protect the unsuspecting many.

The basic thrust of the plot is that Morbius—a celebrity scientist whose lab is funded by Crown’s family fortune—is conducting experiments ethically questionable enough that all involved think it best to pursue them on international waters. That’s no problem, given Crown’s vast wealth. But the aftermath of the experiment’s first human trial leaves eight sailors dead, and soon their bodies are discovered on a ghost ship much like the one that harbors Count Dracula at the beginning of Bram Stoker ’s novel. (That’s not “Morbius’” only reference to other, more coherent vampire narratives: The ship is named the Murnau, after the director of “ Nosferatu .”) 

From there, Morbius—who, as you may have already guessed, was turned into a “living vampire” during the experiment—is ostensibly under investigation by the FBI. But Agents Rodriguez ( Al Madrigal ) and Stroud ( Tyrese Gibson ) do a terrible job tracking him, given that he returns to his lab with his colleague and love interest Dr. Martine Bancroft ( Adria Arjona ) within hours of the crime. This is a front-page story with an escalating body count, and the prime suspect is wandering around unnoticed by doing little more than putting up the hood on his sweatshirt. But no matter. On to a more important question: Is the vampire stuff cool? 

Sadly, not really. Like most superhero movies, “Morbius” is rated PG-13, which limits the blood to the sanguine juice boxes Morbius chugs throughout and the occasional rusty stain across a character’s throat. And although prosthetic artists are listed in the film’s credits, their contributions are difficult to make out amid the heavy-handed CGI. “Morbius” is not an MCU film: It belongs to the so-called “Spider-Verse,” coming from the same studio as “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” But it shares an Achilles’ heel with the MCU, in the sense that you can’t tell what’s going on in any of the film’s action sequences. 

If it’s not the wavy, sketchy CGI trails that follow in Morbius’ wake—picture a combination of psychedelic tracers and the soot creatures from “My Neighbor Totoro”—cluttering up the screen, it’s those damn bats. Earlier action sequences aren’t much better, to be clear. But it’s almost impossible to follow the film’s climactic battle, thanks to a colony of vampire bats that swoop in at the last minute to help Morbius clean up the bloodthirsty mess he’s made. Espinosa seems to know that it’s difficult to make out what’s happening, pausing for a midair slow-motion shot in nearly every action sequence. The problem there is, lingering on these moments reveals how obviously phony they are. 

But the film’s over-reliance on digital effects isn’t terribly surprising in a modern superhero movie. Neither is Smith’s sympathetic-to-a-point villain. Nor, for that matter, is Leto’s bland hero, whose most distinctive aspect is the demanding physical transformation the actor underwent for the role. No, the only really surprising—and, therefore, the most disappointing—thing about “Morbius” is the fact that it’s an honest-to-goodness horror film. But only for a few seconds.

Midway through the film, a nurse walks alone down the creepy, abandoned hallway of a hospital late at night, triggering a series of motion-activated sensors as she goes. Suddenly, a light flashes further down the hall, drawing the eye to the point where it disappears into the horizon. A shape! The nurse spots the intruder and runs, bulbs flashing as she goes. She stops to catch her breath, and a monstrous hand pops up from the bottom of the screen. She screams. The camera pulls back, lingering as each isolated puddle of illumination blinks out until only the woman’s prone body—and the shadowy form hunched over her—can be seen. Finally, that light goes out as well, bathing the screen in darkness. 

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.

“Morbius” is available only in theaters on April 1.

Katie Rife is a freelance writer and critic based in Chicago with a speciality in genre cinema. She worked as the News Editor of  The A.V. Club  from 2014-2019, and as Senior Editor of that site from 2019-2022. She currently writes about film for outlets like  Vulture, Rolling Stone, Indiewire, Polygon , and  RogerEbert.com.

• Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius
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• Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft
• Jared Harris as Dr. Nicholas
• Al Madrigal as Agent Alberto Rodriguez
• Tyrese Gibson as Agent Simon Stroud
• Charlie Shotwell as Young Michael

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• Matt Sazama
• Daniel Espinosa

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• Pietro Scalia

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Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead. Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead. Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.

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Jared Leto bares his teeth as a neo-vampire who walks by day and tries to keep his monstrous thirst at bay in the latest Marvel adaptation.

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By Manohla Dargis

My, what sharp teeth he has — and what lovely skin, too. One of the revelations of “Morbius” — the latest movie to take a marginal Marvel character out of mothballs for his blockbuster close-up — is that regular blood smoothies do wonders for the skin. To judge by the chiseled planes of Morbius’s arms and torso, pounding shots of the slurpy stuff also builds muscles much faster than mainlining anabolic steroids can.

Still, the bigger surprise about “Morbius” is that it doesn’t suck, at least as a movie. Against the odds and despite the insufferable persona that its star Jared Leto has cultivated, it provides all you want from a diversion about a brilliant scientist with bottomless financial resources (as well as a hot but smart assistant) who, after refusing his Nobel for his genius scientific invention, secretly develops a serum that turn him into a batlike creature with razor nails, great powers and a hunger for human blood. It also runs under two hours, i.e., a full hour less than that recent slugfest “ The Batman .” I mean, what’s not to like?

As usual, it opens with some temporal scrambling in the present-day Costa Rica, where the adult Morbius (Leto) swoops in on a helicopter, a darkly romantic vision with a curtain of jet-black hair, billowing clothes and hired guns. There, he embarks on a close encounter with vampire bats, as one does when swimming with dolphins has become too pedestrian. Slicing open his palm, he draws first blood and is inundated by a cloud of bats. After a leisurely flashback to his sad childhood, Morbius is back in his New York lab, experimenting and knitting brows alongside a colleague, Monica (Adria Arjona).

Like “The Batman,” “Morbius” is a classic American tale of personal trauma, existential agony, regenerative violence … and bats. Once again, the trauma reaches to childhood, though in this case it involves the young Michael Morbius being treated in a Greek children’s hospital for a rare blood disease. (Why Greece? I have no idea.) There he had a sympathetic doctor (Jared Harris) and befriends a boy he calls Milo, who has the same disease. Milo grows up to become a louche moneybags played by Matt Smith, who’s best known for playing Prince Philip in “The Crown,” a bit of casting history that gives his role here amusing tang.

The movie’s first half is better shaped than its second, and there are narrative lacunae here and there that suggest some late-breaking editing busywork. Even so, as a neo-vampiric tale of dread and desire, the entire thing more or less makes sense on its own improbable terms. The characters are similarly coherent, not just sketches that are designated to be filled out in successive franchise chapters. This modulation also extends to the visuals, despite the overall Goth gloom; here, lights are actually turned on and sometimes the sun even shines, if only to explain that Morbius isn’t your granny’s Dracula.

The filmmakers — Daniel Espinosa directed, from a story and script by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless — reference earlier bloodsuckers, tucking in nods both to Bram Stoker’s novel and to F.W. Murnau’s silent film “Nosferatu.” But Morbius is a hybrid creation, one that recasts Dracula as a kind of contemporary Dr. Frankenstein figure, if one who, like Peter Parker, is transformed by his encounter with another species. Once Morbius goes batty, everything becomes increasingly more complicated and violent, and while bodies fall en masse and one character revels in carnage, the movie doesn’t get off too gleefully on its mayhem.

Like Leto’s performance, Espinosa’s directing settles into a moody middle ground that’s neither too jokey nor overly self-serious, one reason that the movie may appeal more to civilians than to comic-book fundamentalists. It isn’t shrouded in reverence and, in contrast to some other industrial productions of its ilk, you don’t need a Talmudic scholar’s familiarity with the source material to go with the flow. Perhaps as a consequence, it plays more like a movie than an introductory installment. It may well remain a stand-alone given both the negative early word and the uncharacteristically muted reaction of the audience I saw it with.

Leto’s history of needless showboating (as in that wreck “ House of Gucci ”) may not have boded well, but he fits the role and delivers an actual performance, not just shtick and brooding poses. His dramatic physicality — his body fluctuates between the skeletal and the pumping-iron robust — read as more vainglorious than strictly necessary. But the rest of the performance dovetails with the movie, tonally and otherwise. Greasy or glammed, Leto fills in Morbius with restraint, sensitivity and gestural expressivity, creating a solid-enough emotional foundation that deepens the character’s struggles with his own monstrosity.

That isn’t to oversell “Morbius.” Its virtues are minor, even if they are a relief. The movie doesn’t have the visual wit and playfulness of the first “ Doctor Strange ,” and it’s nowhere as fun as the original “ Guardians of the Galaxy ,” which had a lightness of touch that’s almost entirely missing from the contemporary comic-book movie. “Morbius” is a ghoulish, suitably downbeat tale of madness, hubris, suffering and weird science set in a world that offers little solace. And while most of it is as predictably familiar as expected, it does something unusual for a movie like this: It entertains you, rather than bludgeons you into submission.

Morbius Rated PG-13 for standard comic-book movie violence, including gun deaths. Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes. In theaters.

Manohla Dargis has been the co-chief film critic since 2004. She started writing about movies professionally in 1987 while earning her M.A. in cinema studies at New York University, and her work has been anthologized in several books. More about Manohla Dargis

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‘Morbius’: Review

By Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic 2022-03-31T00:00:00+01:00

Jared Leto stars in Daniel Espinosa’s stylish horror-action franchise start-up about a scientist with a rare blood disease

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Dir: Daniel Espinosa. US. 2022. 108 mins.

A monster movie with a little bite, Morbius is elevated by some spirited performances and director Daniel Espinosa’s sure hand with familiar comic-book material. Sony’s latest instalment in its expanded Spider-Man universe introduces us to the titular sickly scientist whose cure for his rare blood disease ends up transforming him into a ravenous vampire, played by Jared Leto with haunted gusto. This horror-action picture offers modest genre pleasures and a consistently spooky vibe, resulting in a film that has been designed chiefly to ensure future sequels, although the story includes enough emotional shading and robust set pieces to be an engaging standalone feature.

This consistently enjoyable franchise start-up manages to find enough new ways to tinker with the formula.

Opening March 31 in the UK and the following day in the US, Morbius will hope to replicate the commercial fortunes of Venom , also based on a Spider-Man villain. Leto is an Oscar-winner who has dabbled in superhero cinema before, portraying the Joker in 2016’s Suicide Squad , and he is joined by Matt Smith, whose witty menace lends an extra spark to the proceedings. With The Batman ’s stranglehold on multiplexes starting to diminish, Morbius seems well-positioned to take its place atop the box office — even if many viewers won’t have much prior association with the character.

Leto plays the brilliant, caustic Dr. Michael Morbius, who since childhood has suffered from a fatal blood disorder that ravages his body, forcing him to use crutches to get around. Dedicated to finding a remedy for his illness — the same disease that affects his long-time friend Milo (Smith) — Michael boldly combines his own DNA with that of a vampire bat, and although the procedure gives him incredible strength and speed, it also leaves him with an insatiable taste for blood — in particular, human blood. After accidentally killing a few security guards in his heightened state, Michael is chased by the cops and must figure out a way to stabilise his terrifying new condition.

As with his 2017 sci-fi/horror film Life , which liberally borrowed from Alien , Espinosa shows an ability to fuse different genres in Morbius , delivering a derivative but stylish entertainment. It helps that the effects work is compelling, accentuating Leto’s performance as the driven Michael who unleashes the beast within once he takes this volatile serum. Jon Ekstrand’s mournful score and Stefania Cella’s dank production design only further emphasise the film’s funhouse quality: once Michael becomes a vampire — and then, later, Milo — Morbius revels in its scary, suspenseful atmosphere.

In recent pictures such as Suicide Squad and House Of Gucci , Leto has demonstrated a tendency to go broad, to varying degrees of success, and so, by his quirky standards,  Morbius represents a relatively restrained turn. That said, the actor clearly savours Michael’s eccentric sense of humour and gloomy temperament, suggesting a character straight out of a Gothic horror story. But when Michael begins to wrestle with the repercussions of his experiment, Leto is largely reigned in, despite the scientist’s penchant for guzzling blood packs to quell his cravings.

Smith is on the same tonal wavelength as his co-star, eagerly depicting Milo’s joy after secretly taking the serum, abandoning his cane and going out on the town with a cocky strut. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless’ screenplay positions the two men as childhood chums who will be torn apart by their different attitudes toward their transformation — Michael fearful of what he has become, Milo drunk on his newfound vitality — but while the characters are not well-developed, Leto and Smith bring enough emotion to make their feud adequately poignant.

At a time when too many superhero films extend far beyond the two-hour mark, Morbius is admirably succinct, producing some muscular action sequences alongside only a few egregious plot holes. (One kill sequence involving motion-detecting lights is especially effective.) Espinosa even finds enough room for a passable love story between Michael and his colleague Martine (Adria Arjona), who supports his research but worries that he is messing with primal forces he doesn’t understand.

Hers is a reasonable, albeit predictable concern — after all, horror fiction has long been populated by scientists who foolishly dare to play god — but this consistently enjoyable franchise start-up manages to find enough new ways to tinker with the formula. Of course, the end credits contain a few bonus scenes meant to tantalise us with the possibility of where this series could go next. Such obligatory, unwelcome teasers risk sucking the fun out of what came before.

Production companies: Arad Productions, Matt Tolmach Productions

International distribution: Sony Pictures Entertainment 

Producers: Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Lucas Foster

Screenplay: Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless, based on the Marvel comics

Cinematography: Oliver Wood

Editing: Pietro Scalia

Production design: Stefania Cella

Music: Jon Ekstrand

Main cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson

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Matt Smith and Adria Arjona also star in Marvel’s origin story of the conflicted antihero, a doctor who gets cozy with vampire bats to treat his rare blood disorder.

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After his bizarrely cartoonish turn in House of Gucci , it’s a relief to see Jared Leto channel his lust for transformative characters into a film where that’s quite literally written into the role’s DNA. He plays the title figure in Morbius , known as “The Living Vampire” in the Marvel comics from whence he hails. Leto gets to juggle time as the brilliant Dr. Michael Morbius — who has spent his life searching for a cure for the rare fatal blood disease that afflicts him — with the blood-sucking monster he becomes, which fills his soul with horror.

After a promising start, Daniel Espinosa ’s long-delayed film only intermittently matches the intensity of the lead performance, and the script by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless becomes thin on story, choppily stringing together chaotic outbursts and action clashes that build to a painstakingly foreshadowed “sibling” face-off. None of that seems likely to deter the geek faithful, even if this new entry in Sony ’s Spider-Man Universe often seems a lot like a boilerplate Venom installment, without the humor.

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Release date : Friday, April 1 Cast : Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson Director : Daniel Espinosa Screenwriters : Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, based on the Marvel comics

A tense prologue takes place in Cerro de la Muerte in the misty mountains of Costa Rica, where a frail, emaciated Michael hobbles from a helicopter on crutches into the mouth of a cave that’s home to thousands of vampire bats. While the chopper pilot frets about getting out of there before dark, Michael spots a half-devoured animal carcass and notes admiringly that even though the bats weigh almost nothing, they can overpower a creature almost ten times their size. Without warning, he slashes open his hand to serve as bait.

Cut to 25 years earlier in Greece, where the young Michael (Charlie Shotwell) is in a clinic under the care of Dr. Nicholas ( Jared Harris ) when he meets new patient Lucien (Joseph Esson), a British boy roughly the same age and with the same blood disorder. They bond instantly, with Michael giving his new friend the nickname Milo and likening the two of them to the Spartans: “We are the few against the many.” Which is the only semi-discernible reason for this part to take place in Greece.

Back in the story’s present in New York, Michael has become a renowned doctor, who shocks his trusted colleague, Dr. Martine Bancroft ( Adria Arjona ), when he turns down the Nobel Prize for his development of artificial blood. That’s just the beginning of his work, Michael explains, which is where the “aquarium” — actually a massive upright cylindrical glass chamber — full of bats brought home from Costa Rica comes in.

Both Michael and Milo ( Matt Smith ) continue to be treated by the weirdly ageless mentor figure of Dr. Nicholas. Milo, meanwhile, has inherited a fortune, so he’s bankrolling Michael’s lab experimentation while hungrily soaking up whatever life he can in his louche, playboy style, as his body continues to deteriorate.

Given that the procedure of mixing human and bat DNA is considered both unethical and illegal, the first trial has to be done in international waters off the Eastern Seaboard, on a cargo boat manned by shady mercenaries. Martine injects the serum into Michael’s spine, and though we don’t witness the actual transformation, we definitely see the end result spring into action, which is bad news for the crew.

The upside is that it gives Michael Olympian athletic prowess, superhuman strength and exceptional sonic radar. Oh, and springboard skills that soon morph into the power of flight. The downside is creepy bat eyes, a gnarly manicure, fangs and a thirst for human blood that needs to be sated whenever the serum wears off.

The movie from there on out is basically Michael wrestling with his conscience, vowing that what happened on the boat can never happen again, while FBI agents Stroud (Tyrese Gibson) and Ramirez (Al Madrigal) investigate the string of violent deaths that begins there, with corpses mysteriously drained of blood.

The body count is destined to keep climbing when Milo gets his hands on the serum and reveals fewer scruples about his new favorite tipple. “All our lives we’ve lived with death hanging over us,” he tells Michael. “Why shouldn’t they know what it feels like for a change?” Besides, the bat transformation of Milo’s face when he’s on the juice does wonders for Smith’s cut-glass cheekbones. But the different views of Michael and Milo toward suppertime inevitably will set brother against brother, with Martine at risk in between.

While DP Oliver Wood shoots most of the action with the lugubrious palette that’s become standard for this end of the Marvel spectrum, he makes atmospheric use of New York’s subways and underground spaces in several scenes. The thundering score by Jon Ekstrand, with its pounding percussion elements, also pumps up the energy, even as the plot slides into repetitive grooves.

The look gets a boost from the effects team’s visualizing of sound waves received by Michael and Milo whenever they’re in vampiric mode, bouncing off people, objects and buildings in their paths. Their speedy movements are also trailed by a dusting of color; that’s never really explained, but it looks cool, especially when Michael’s in an orange prison jumpsuit or a flapping black coat with bright purple lining. Their facial transformations are entirely digital, done without prosthetics, effectively straddling the divide between photorealism and comics.

But like so many movies rooted in comics, much of Morbius seems like groundwork for more complex storytelling to come, and especially for crossover chapters, one of which is set up in two mid-credit sequences involving a character (and star) seen previously in Spider-Man: Homecoming .

It’s just a shame this opening salvo takes itself too seriously to have much fun with the mayhem, despite the potential in Smith’s devilish turn for amusing interplay between the antagonists. Arjona carries herself with confidence, but her character also gets a little lost in the carnage; perhaps the late-breaking romance between Martine and Michael will acquire more of a heartbeat in the next round. Leto certainly broods up a storm behind his veil of rock-star hair, yet the movie has too little to distinguish it from the second-tier (or maybe third?) Marvel pack, ending up as more of the same.

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Distribution: Sony Production companies: Columbia Pictures, Marvel, Avi Arad Productions, Matt Tolmach Productions Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson, Corey Johnson, Charlie Shotwell, Joseph Esson Director: Daniel Espinosa Screenwriters: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, based on the Marvel comics Producers: Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Lucas Foster Executive producers: Louise Rosner, Emma Ludbrook Director of photography: Oliver Wood Production designer: Stefania Cella Costume designer: Cindy Evans Music: Jon Ekstrand Editor: Pietro Scalia Visual effects supervisor: Matthew E. Butler Casting: Nina Gold

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Morbius Reviews Are Finally Here, See What Critics Are Saying About The Jared Leto Comic Book Movie

The Jared Leto-led blockbuster hits theaters April 1.

After years of development, and, of course, COVID-driven delays , Morbius is finally set to make its theatrical debut. Starring Jared Leto as the titular living vampire, the new coming book movie has connections to Sony’s Spider-Man Universe , playing out in the same canon as Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage . Critics have had the chance to screen Morbius, and their reviews are here to give us an idea of what to expect. 

Daniel Espinosa is directing, and alongside Jared Leto's eponymous doctor/vampire, the film also stars Matt Smith , Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal and Tyrese Gibson . Will we see Spider-Man? If so, which version? Fans are about to find out, as the Marvel blockbuster hits theaters on Friday, April 1. 

Let’s take a (SPOILER-FREE) look at what the reviews are saying about Morbius , starting with CinemaBlend ’s own Eric Eisenberg. It's a pretty rough start, with Eisenberg rating it just 1 star out of 5, saying he didn’t think they made comic book movies this bad anymore. He says not a single scene in the movie gives insight into the characters’ personalities, noting that the script “coldly” navigates between plot points:

There is no fun to be had here; there isn’t any ironic or 'so bad it’s good' enjoyment. It’s soulless. It’s oozing, tar-like gunk that has been spit out of the Hollywood machine, and you should avoid stepping in it.

It isn't quite so bad in the opinion of critic Anna Smith of Deadline . She says Jared Leto tries to bring humanity to the character but doesn't get any help from the script:

This movie isn’t 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 like Spider-Man: No Way Home — and the mid-credit scenes are more baffling than exciting.

Chris Evangelista of SlashFilm rates Morbius a 4 out of 10, calling it an absolutely dreadful piece of "pre-packaged junk" that can't even be saved by its special effects:

This is an ugly film, staged in non-descript rooms and sterile labs. Everything is awash in a Windex-like blue tint. There's no sense of scale — or place. If it weren't for several establishing shots of the New York skyline, we'd have absolutely no idea where Morbius is set. As for how, or why, this film connects to the larger Sony Spider-Man Universe, well, I'll leave that for you to discover, reader. Just know the results are about as dumb and disappointing as everything else that goes on in this puddle of garbage juice disguised as a movie. 

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter says he doesn't think Morbius is bad, but it's kind of forgettable.  He says it seems to serve the purpose of laying the groundwork for other (and better) stories to come:

It’s just a shame this opening salvo takes itself too seriously to have much fun with the mayhem, despite the potential in [Matt] Smith’s devilish turn for amusing interplay between the antagonists. [Adria Arjona] carries herself with confidence but her character also gets a little lost in the carnage; perhaps the late-breaking romance between Martine and Michael will acquire more of a heartbeat in the next round. Leto certainly broods up a storm behind his veil of rock-star hair, but the movie has too little to distinguish it from the second-tier Marvel pack, ending up as more of the same.

Kate Erbland of IndieWire grades Morbius a C-, saying this vampire movie sucked more than blood. She also calls the movie "forgettable," writing that its basis is incomprehensible, its action sequences are scattered, and its hazy timeline makes it feel chopped up:

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Morbius mostly surprises because of how very dull it is. (How do you make a Jared Leto vampire superhero movie dull? In this economy?) Case in point: After Michael’s bad deeds become publicized, local news teams term him 'the Vampire Murderer,' an uninspired nickname that serves as a microcosm of everything Morbius is: mostly unnecessary, oddly unoriginal, and soon quite forgettable indeed.

Another critic who thinks the movie takes itself too seriously is Matt Donato of IGN . He rates it a "Mediocre" 5 out of 10, saying this vampire film lacks bite and is marred by shoddy digital effects-driven fights:

Morbius is unspectacular in ways that waste the potential of what could be an intriguing hybrid of sinister horror and superhero thrills. One single scene recalls David F. Sandberg’s Lights Out for a suitable fright, but otherwise horror accents are limited to cheesy jokes about Dracula. That’s the approach the whole film takes, in fact. Everything feels superfluous and uninterested in thoughtful storytelling because the mission at hand is to get to the end credits where the meat exists. Morbius is so focused on building Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and hopeful sequels — which could very well be better now that the foundation exists — that it forgets about enthusiastically engaging its audience from the start.

Well, the critics don't seem all that pleased about the latest comic book blockbuster, but if Jared Leto's living vampire sounds like your cup of blood-spiked tea, you can check Morbius out for yourself in theaters on Friday. Also be sure to look over what other  upcoming superhero movies  may dominate the box office next, as well as our 2022 Movie Release Schedule so you can start planning your next movie night! 

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Morbius review: Sony's high-gloss vampire superhero film isn't really a full movie, but it's fun

Jared Leto is a new kind of bat, man.

Branding aside, Batman has never really done bat things . He may have the swag and the color scheme, but there's no real communion, if you will, with the small winged mammals that gave him his name. Not so Marvel's Morbius, the dark hero who finally gets his due in the titular film hitting theaters this Friday. The fact that it's really only half a movie — much like Dune , its entire plot is essentially the preamble to a larger story — only partly diminishes the lizard-brain fun of watching Jared Leto zip around for 100-plus minutes like a you-know-what out of hell, sucking the blood from hired thugs and finance bros and then feeling really bad about it.

He's a killer with a conscience, you see: Dr. Stephen Morbius, a world-renowned scientist so gifted and so principled that he can casually turn down a Nobel Prize. His sole aim in life is to cure the disease he was born with, some kind of rare disorder that leaves him in a permanently weakened state. He's not alone in his misfortune; there's a childhood friend who shares his illness, Milo ( Matt Smith ), and the kindly man who cares for them, Nicholas (Jared Harris), both established in early flashbacks. In the present day, there's also Martine (Adria Arjona), the fellow researcher who is, by the laws of Hollywood, both improbably hot and remarkably amenable to sudden startling alterations in Stephen's DNA.

It turns out that a scouting trip to a well-stocked cave in the wilds of Costa Rica has borne fruit for the good doctor; after a little tinkering in the lab, a syringe of precious bat-liquid gives him the life he's never had. With each infusion his withered legs grow strong, and his concave chest turns to Men's Health marble. He can run, leap, fly! He also can't stop draining humans like they're Capri Suns, feeding on the pints of hemoglobin that instinct tells him he needs to survive.

Naturally, this behavior attracts the attention of law enforcement, largely in the form of two nonplussed FBI agents ( Tyrese Gibson and Al Madrigal) who try their mortal best to keep him contained. But handcuffs and stern lectures are hardly a match for Morbius; it's only Milo — the friend who burns for a cure as badly as he does, only without a moral compass — who presents any real threat. Smith, a former Dr. Who, excels at the poor-little-rich-boy villainy of his character, a tragic aristocrat whose eyes gleam with mania. His Milo has been waiting for this moment for a long time. (Leto too, fresh off a Razzie for his molto Italiano turn in House of Gucci , hits the right notes of fear and longing in a surprisingly restrained performance, though his aggressively ageless beauty at 50 suggests its own kind of blood bargain.)

Swedish-Chilean director Daniel Espinosa ( Life ) gives it all a dark sheen, and shoots the pair's inevitable confrontations less like traditional comic-book clashes than something from The Matrix . The air around them moves like liquid ribbons, and even in peak CGI, their fights looks like something between jet propulsion and underwater ballet. Logic and plot flow are generally treated like civilian casualties, but the movie, with its canny mix of whiz-bang violence, goth atmosphere, and high camp, feels pleasingly pulpy and urgent up until its last minutes, when the narrative doesn't so much wind down as run smack into the final title card.

This being adjacent to the MCU, of course, it's not really over; there's one telling post-credits scene, and then another, featuring a famed alumnus some will undoubtedly have already predicted, and others will soon have spoiled for them by the internet. Whatever elaborate offshoots and cross-pollinations those last moments promise, though, this particular bat man's future is most likely in fans' hands. Because there's still one superpower Morbius doesn't have: the license to green-light a sequel. Grade: B

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Morbius has a 17 percent “Rotten” rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing, but how does that compare to Jared Leto’s other movies? Leto’s movies have all received varied reception over the years, and it’s clear that Morbius ranks near the lower end of critical reception. It doesn’t paint a good picture, especially when compared to the other films Leto’s been involved with.

Sony has had problems for years with establishing their own shared universe of Marvel movies, with the Venom franchise being a notable outlier in that regard, and Morbius has been no different. Fans and critics alike have reacted negatively to the film because of its plot, writing, directing, and the inconsistent ways in which Morbius ' post-credits scene tries to connect to the MCU in its ending. All of that came together to make it become “Rotten” on Rotten Tomatoes.

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This is how Morbius ’ Rotten Tomatoes score compares to all of the other movies Jared Leto has been involved with. Leto has been in a wide variety of movies over the years, from other superhero movies such as Suicide Squad and Zack Snyder’s Justice League to movies with wildly differing plots and themes such as Fight Club , American Psycho , and Blade Runner 2049 . Thanks to that, there isn’t an extreme amount of consistency between the scores of his films, but there’s still plenty of information to be analyzed.

Only Two Jared Leto Movies Have A Worse Rotten Tomatoes Score Than Morbius

Sony Pictures' Morbius ’ score of 17 percent on Rotten Tomatoes is extremely low for both superhero movies and movies, in general, but it’s not the lowest-rated movie Leto has been involved with. As it stands, there are only two movies on Leto’s resume with a lower score than Morbius : the 2004 epic historical drama Alexander , which only has a 16 percent rating, and the 1998 British historical drama Basil , which has an abysmal 0 percent rating. Alexander was a noted box office failure that also failed to garner a positive reception from fans and critics, and while Basil only has five reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, likely owing to its relative obscurity, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s one of the few movies Leto’s been involved with to have a lower score than Morbius . If anything, the fact that one of the few films Jared Leto's Morbius   could do better than was an obscure nineties film that only a handful of people are likely to be familiar with potentially makes Morbius look even worse.

Morbius ’ rating also looks bad when compared to some of the other low-rated films Leto has been involved with. At a 17 percent “Rotten” rating, Morbius is between one and nine points behind The Outsider , Chapter 27 , Urban Legend , and Suicide Squad . All of those movies were either critical failures, financial failures, or both, so Morbius doing worse than them truly emphasizes the negative reception it’s been met with. It’s also very telling that the DCEU's Suicide Squad has a higher score than it, as Suicide Squad has a notoriously negative reception among many viewers and critics for a superhero movie.

Morbius’ Score Is Largely Consistent With Jared Leto’s Films

As low as Morbius ’ score may be, it’s largely consistent with Leto’s general film history. Out of the twenty-eight films of Leto’s that have ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, twelve — thirteen if Morbius is included — are “Rotten”; in addition to some of the previously cited examples, there are also films such as Switchback , Lonely Hearts , and The Little Things , all of which did poorly at the box office and were met with mixed to negative reception. Almost half of Leto’s films with ratings on Rotten Tomatoes are “Rotten”, and with there being a few that are just barely past the line - such as Lord of War at 61 percent and House of Gucci at 63 percent - there’s a clear trend of Jared Leto’s movies not performing well in one way or another, and Morbius is just the latest one to follow that.

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While Leto’s films are all largely different from one another, the reasons people had for disliking them do have some overlap. For many of the films that received “Rotten” ratings, common criticisms have been things along the lines of poor and unfocused plotting and uninteresting and uninspired stories. That sort of reasoning is in line with many of the criticisms that have been levied at Morbius , as many people have called its story boring and poorly written, even saying that it feels like a superhero movie that should have been made in the 2000s as opposed to the 2020s.

That being said, it’s not as if actor Jared Leto has never been part of any successful movies in his career. For example, Leto had roles in both Fight Club and American Psycho , two films that have received a wide amount of praise from fans and critics alike. More recently, Leto has been involved with the critically-acclaimed Blade Runner 2049 , Zack Snyder’s Justice League , which many people agree to be a vast improvement over the original Justice League film, and Dallas Buyers Club , with Leto’s performance even earning him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. At least from a critical standpoint, it’s clear that while Jared Leto does tend to appear in movies that are met with some degree of a negative reception, he can appear in something that can either be a critical or financial success.

At the end of the day, the quality of a movie is subjective, and how enjoyable a film like Sony Pictures'  Morbius will be is ultimately up to the viewer. Rotten Tomatoes is good at compiling reviews together to give a general idea of how a movie is being received, but that shouldn’t be the deciding factor in whether or not a person thinks a movie is good, or even if they’ll bother seeing it. However, that doesn’t mean it should be completely ignored, especially since the reviews are being made by people who also watched the movie. The fact that so many people would watch Morbius and come away with negative-enough impressions of it to get it rated “Rotten” definitely paints a picture of what someone might be in for if they go to see it, and the general history of Jared Leto’s other films doesn’t help much with that, either. Again, the quality of a movie is subjective, so Jared Leto's Morbius can be enjoyed despite its low rating, but it’s still some interesting data, especially when trying to understand the film's standing alongside other superhero movies.

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Morbius Reviews On Rotten Tomatoes Are A Stake Through The Heart

Sony's new " Morbius " movie just hit theaters, and reviewers have already started sinking their teeth into it. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the internet's leading film review site, people have been ripping the Marvel Comics-inspired superhero flick to shreds — with most saying "Morbius" is boring and inconsistent pretty much across the board. The negative sentiment echoes the early impressions about the Jared Leto-led project, which also stars former "Doctor Who" actor Matt Smith, as well as Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal and Tyrese Gibson. 

"Well, Morbius is about as bad as you were expecting," Collider's Sab Astley had previously said (via Twitter ). "A 2005 plot collides with visually confusing CGI to create a bit of a snooze fest...Sony are off their rocker."

With other early reviews calling "Morbius" a number of different things, including "disjointed" and "messy," it was pretty clear that the Rotten Tomatoes critiques to come out after it's official release would be about the same. Here's what reviewers are saying...

Critics sink their teeth in Morbius, but they don't like the taste

There's really no way around it: The vast majority of critics on  Rotten Tomatoes dislike "Morbius." In fact, it would be an understatement to say they merely "dislike" it. From the looks of it, reviewers seem to consider "Morbius" one of those rare movies that are such abject failures, they can only be reviewed with particularly colorful expressions and scathing terms. 

For example, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail states that the movie is so very bad that it might actually end up tanking the superhero movie trend. "If there is any justice in Hollywood, Morbius will be retconned to the margins of superhero cinema history. If the film doesn't bury the genre alive first, that is," he wrote. 

Robbie Collin of The Telegraph  didn't hide his thoughts about the movie's pointlessness. "The studio may have accidentally created the first Shepard film: it goes on for about an hour and 45 minutes, and right up until the second it ends, you keep feeling as if it's just about to start." 

Other critics turned their blaming finger toward Sony, and expressed the belief that "Morbius" is a prime example of a movie that's intended to be a money-making machine, with very little inherent quality to speak of. "A cash-grab so sloppy it makes you wonder if the top brass at Sony are nihilistic members of the undead," Charlotte O'Sullivan of London Evening Standard  wrote.

Meanwhile, others chose to take yet another approach by adorning their review with the exact same amount of creativity that they feel the movie features. "'Morbius' really does... *sigh* suck. Yes, we couldn't even come up with something more inventive, folks," Brian Lloyd of Entertainment.ie wrote.

Critics have little love for Jared Leto as Morbius

It's not just the movie's general quality that draws the reviewers' ire. Several critics have also pointed out that  Jared Leto — who, as an Academy Award winner, clearly has a history of knowing how to act — doesn't quite manage to impress as the titular character, for various reasons. 

According to Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting , Leto simply fails to captivate in the same way as Tom Hardy does in his symbiote-filled corner of Sony's Spider-Man universe. "Without, say, someone like Tom Hardy embracing the weirdness of the character in 'Venom', it's tough to find rooting interest or muster any excitement for the vampiric bat man," the critic wrote.  

Meanwhile, Stephanie Zacharek of Time felt that while Leto does bring an element of emotion in the movie, he "perhaps isn't so much a serious actor as one who takes himself very seriously." Oof.

Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune  stepped back to look at the bigger picture, and found that when you combine "Morbius" with Leto's recent turn as Paolo Gucci in " House of Gucci ," it can be very difficult to comprehend the actor's ways. "I don't relish pinning blame, or a tail, or horns, or anything on a particular star/executive producer, in this case Leto, since so much in corporate franchise commerce has a chance to go wrong before a single performer gets in front of a camera," the reviewer wrote. "But my bafflement regarding Leto is becoming chronic, and I'm still recovering from his opera buffa turn and Chico Marx dialect in 'House of Gucci.'" 

All in all, whether the audiences find the movie or not, it's already pretty clear that "Morbius" won't go down in history as the most critically praised superhero movie of all time.

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• While Venom 3's Rotten Tomatoes score may improve, it may not impact its appeal to fans following Tom Hardy's satisfying swan song.

Venom: The Last Dance 's Rotten Tomatoes score has been unveiled, and Tom Hardy's final bow as Eddie Brock continues a negative trend for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe franchise.

Venom: The Last Dance is the closing chapter of a trilogy that includes the first film and its sequel, Let There Be Carnage . Both films were maligned by critics, earning Rotten Tomatoes scores of 30% and 57%, respectively. This would become a common response to Sony's Spider-Man Universe franchise, with Morbius and Madame Web receiving dismal Rotten Tomatoes scores as well (15% for Morbius and 11% for Madame Web ). Venom 3 reviews have been published, and the third installment of the symbiote's franchise has fared no better with critics than its contemporaries.

A Scarlet Witch solo movie centered on Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff may not be on Marvel Studios' release slate for a long time.

Venom: The Last Dance 37% On Rotten Tomatoes

As of this writing, Venom: The Last Dance 's Rotten Tomatoes score is 37% based on 76 reviews. "Critics say if you didn't love the first two 'Venom' movies, you probably won't like this one either, but for fans, it's a satisfying swan song for Tom Hardy and his symbiote BF," writes RT's Christopher Campbell . Venom 3 's final Rotten Tomatoes score may improve as more reviews come in, but even if it fails to become "Certified Fresh," it may not matter.

The Venom movies have proven themselves critic-proof. The first Venom film and Let There Be Carnage were box office hits , grossing a respective $856.1 million and $506.9 million worldwide against relatively modest budgets. While Venom: Let There Be Carnage grossed less than its predecessor, it was released as the world was climbing out of the COVID-19 pandemic and audiences were just getting used to attending theaters again. The success of Venom and Let There Be Carnage was undoubtedly fueled by the fan responses, which were decidedly more positive than critics' reviews.

Venom Threequel Reception Adds Salt to the Wound of Sony's Spider-Man Villain Universe

However, unlike the Venom films, the other Sony Spider-Man Universe movies have not defied critics by obtaining financial success. Morbius and Madame Web were box office bombs, adding salt to the wound inflicted by predominantly negative reviews. Morbius has the dishonor of failing twice , bombing again after Sony re-released it in theaters, seemingly misreading the internet memes mocking the film as genuine admiration.

Venom 3 may avoid box office catastrophe, but comic book movie sequels have recently failed to reach the same success as their predecessors. Aquaman 2 , Shazam 2 , Captain Marvel 2 , and Joker 2 grossed far less than the first installment of each franchise despite being sequels to successful films. So, it wouldn't be unthinkable for Venom 3 to continue this trend of box office duds for Sony's Spider-Man universe, but perhaps the symbiote is popular enough to once again defy critics and beat back 'superhero fatigue.'

Venom: The Last Dance will be released in theaters on October 25, 2024.

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Venom 3 is the third and final installment in Sony's symbiote trilogy starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock. It follows the events of Let There Be Carnage, where the anti-hero fought serial killer Cletus Kasady, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Brock was briefly transported to the MCU through the multiverse.

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Morbius: 8 of the most scathing critic comments

Morbius hasn't been a hit among critics, with the new comic book film receiving a very low Rotten Tomatoes score. Here are some of the most scathing comments...

Morbius has united the critics — they all seem to hate it!

So far hardly anyone has had a good thing to say about it and it currently has a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of just 20%.

This might be disappointing for comic book fans, as Morbius focuses on a Spider-Man villain who hasn't really been explored as much compared to others such as Green Goblin, and attempts to explore the character have been met with much criticism so far. 

The film stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a brilliant scientist who suffers from a rare blood disease. In an attempt to find a cure, vampire bat DNA is mixed into his blood, transforming him into a pseudo-vampire with a lust for blood. 

It sounds thrilling at face value but critics think otherwise, and we've put together some comments from those who really didn't think the film was a hit. Even What to Watch didn't like it, with our Morbius review only scoring the film 1.5/5. Our reviewer, Mike Manalo, wrote: "Oh wow. I haven’t seen a superhero movie as bad as  Morbius  since the early 2000s".

Read on to see eight of the most scathing comments from movie critics...

1. New York Post: 'The viewer struggles to care'

The New York Post claimed it was difficult to care about Morbius , giving the film a disappointing 1.5/4 rating and claiming there were much better vampire stories out there.

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Film critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote : "The viewer struggles to care. We’re also aware that there are many, many better vampire stories than Count Dreckula here."

2. The Times: 'The cinematic equivalent of Murphy’s Law'

In his one-star review for Morbius , The Times critic Kevin Maher compared the film to Murphy's Law , which in simple terms can be boiled down to "If anything can go wrong, it will."

He wrote: "The cinematic equivalent of Murphy’s Law is demonstrated by this appalling superhero snooze-fest. It’s a movie without dramatic jeopardy, originality, narrative coherence, compelling characters or a single even vaguely human performance."

3. The Guardian: '[Morbius'] superpower is being bafflingly dull'

The Guardian 's critic Peter Bradshaw was also unimpressed with Morbius , claiming the film was dull and giving it a 1/5 star rating . He also described the film as "ludicrously pointless".

He said: "The Marvel superhero-vampire Morbius is with us. And sadly his superpower is being bafflingly dull."

4. Gizmodo: 'Like a roller coaster without a pulse'

Germain Lussier likened Morbius to a disappointing roller coaster, claiming that it was an underwhelming experience that should have been better in his Gizmodo review . 

He said: " Morbius is like a roller coaster without a pulse. There are highs, there are lows, there's plenty of disorientation, and by the end, you aren't upset with the ride, but largely underwhelmed because you have the sense it should have been better."

5. Time Out: 'No compelling characters'

Time Out 's Cathy Brennan gave the film 1/5 , criticising Morbius for its lack of compelling characters which they claim is central to a "good superhero story".

Cathy wrote: "Compelling characters are the lifeblood of a good superhero story, so it's tragic that a film about two warring vampires in the Marvel universe is utterly bereft of them."

6. Bloody Disgusting: 'It’s tough to find rooting interest'

Bloody Disgusting critic Meagan Navarro argued that the film struggled to embrace any weirdness meaning that audiences are likely to feel no excitement for Morbius, or anyone else in the film. 

In her 2.5/5 review she wrote: "Without, say, someone like Tom Hardy embracing the weirdness of the character in Venom, it’s tough to find rooting interest or muster any excitement for the vampiric bat man."

7. We Live Entertainment: 'Someone had to be actively trying to make a movie this bad'

Writing for We Live Entertainment , critic Audrey Fox claimed that someone had to be trying to make a bad film, considering the outcome was "a dull and uninspired disaster".

In her 2/5 star review she wrote: "When you watch Morbius, there's an inescapable sense that someone had to be actively trying to make a movie this bad."

8. CinemaBlend: 'There is no fun to be had here'

Writing for CinemaBlend , Eric Eisenberg described the film as having "no discernable theme" and that people should avoid this one.

In his one-star review , he wrote: "There is no fun to be had here; there isn't any ironic or so bad its good enjoyment. It's soulless. It's oozing, tar-like gunk that has been spit out of the Hollywood machine, and you should avoid stepping in it."

Lucy joined the WhatToWatch.com team in 2021, where she writes series guides for must-watch programmes, reviews and the latest TV news. Now she works for our sister site TechRadar in the same role. Originally from Northumberland, she graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in Film Studies and moved to London to begin a career writing about entertainment.

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The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man: No Way Home star Rhys Ifans has a supporting role in Venom: The Last Dance , but who is the actor playing and does it have anything to do with his role as The Lizard?

In Spider-Man: No Way Home , Doctor Strange's botched spell pulled six familiar villains into Earth-616 for a clash with Tom Holland's web-slinger. 

The Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Sandman, and The Lizard all battled Spidey, though Venom chose to remain in Mexico. Needless to say, with The Vulture randomly sent to Morbius' reality, there's been a lot of speculation about what Rhys Ifans is doing in Venom: The Last Dance .

The prevailing theory has been that he might be a redeemed Curt Connors or perhaps even a new Variant of the character. After all, why cast him in this threequel if The Amazing Spider-Man star's Marvel history isn't acknowledged in any way? 

Well, that's exactly what happens. 

In Venom: The Last Dance , Ifans is playing Martin, an alien-obsessed father who has dragged his family - Nova, Echo, and Leaf - on a trip to Area 51 before it's commissioned.

Martin doesn't appear to be based on anyone from the comic books but he befriends Eddie and the fugitive reporter does bond with the kindly family that helps get him to Las Vegas. They return in the final act, but we won't be spoiling their roles in that here. 

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter , Venom: The Last Dance writer/director Kelly Marcel admitted Ifans returning as The Lizard was never considered for the Venom threequel. The same applied to Chiwetel Ejiofor who is best known as the MCU's Baron Mordo.

"They’re brilliant actors, and they play different roles. For me, it was just about having the right actors for these parts, and I can’t imagine anyone but Rhys playing Martin," she explained.  "I also can’t imagine anyone other than Chiwetel playing Strickland."

"They’re amazing actors, and I’m so grateful we got to work with them. So none of us really thought about their prior characters that they had played."

In  Venom: The Last Dance , Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel's greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.

The movie stars Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham, and Rhys Ifans. Kelly Marcel directs from a screenplay she wrote, based on a story by Hardy and Marcel. The film is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy and Hutch Parker.

Venom: The Last Dance  will be released in theaters on October 25.

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