Review: Morbius is all the better for its literary flair and gothic bite.
Superheroes have, to hear marketing professionals tell it, wormed their way into conspiracy thrillers, family comedies, grief dramas, and other genres outside the specific confines of bodysuit rock-’em-sock-’em. It’s a natural evolution, then, that a superhero should find himself in the realm of horror. Enter Dr. Michael Morbius, the titular figurehead of the new film.
The film opens on an ominous cave in a remote Costa Rican jungle. It then jumps back in time to a stately residential children’s hospital in Greece that seems more 1930s than 1995, before catching us up to the present in a looming and night-lit version of New York City.has a sense of place—and an interest in interesting places—that distinguishes it from the gleaming, anonymous Atlanta pop of so many other superhero films.
Milo has a Sebastian Flyte flounce about him. He’s a bored aristocrat, gloomy about his failing health and funneling as much cash as he can into Morbius’s research. Bonded by their lonely childhoods and now a mounting desperation to escape their circumstances, Morbius and Milo share a more complicated rapport—and a more deeply homosocial one—than do many a hero-villain pairing in movies such as this.
something like literary stakes. While Leto humbly gets out of his way, Smith—who already looks like a vampire without all the makeup—plays his part with an alluringly haughty menace. Particularly in a well-worded scene in which Milo argues with his longtime caregiver/father figure, played by
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