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Welli finally managed it
Morbius - 3/10
Talk about a shit show. I leave the film feeling very bad for its actors. Its not their fault. This script has nothing for them to do. How they didnt know that going into this is beyond me but here we are all the same. Matt Smith and Jared Harris have the only decent scene in the film but sticking two A+ actors alone in a room and theyre bound to get something interesting out of it. Fortunately for them no ones seen them in this film so their shame should go largely unnoticed.
The film is rushed. There's a saying, for decades, that American films dont have a 3rd act. Generally i think this is pretty true. Especially with popcorn films. Act 1 set up the characters. Act 2 peak the conflict. Act 3 reverse everything we did in act 2. Credits.
By that logic this film doesnt have acts. Its an exercise in reaching an end state. There isnt a narrative developing instead its a race to a finish line where this character can exist in a larger pool.
Our hero's journey is purely to defeat the villain. The villains motivation is crush kill destroy. A better A plot would have been dealing withhis hunger and searching for a sustainable solution. It would give us something to rally along side Morbius and would make his actions herioc. Saving people from himself. The villain can be the B plot. A foil in his efforts.
Instead its visually uninteresting action with powers randomly occuring with no set up so the audience doesnt feel anything when these McGuffins fortuitously arrive.
It's writing at its laziest. That's so because this film was never seriously contemplated. Instead they focused on a finish line they were never going to cross.
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