What do you get when you cross poor acting and awful CGI with a story about angsty vampires? No, not the Twilight Saga, you get the dumpster fire that is Morbius. When this movie was announced a couple years ago, I just remember thinking, “Why?” After watching it, that question has not changed at all.

Out of all the Spider-Man related properties Sony has been holding hostage for the last few years, I am at a loss as to why they chose the vampire to adapt into a film after the decent success of the Venom movies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of either Venom but Sony at least cast a good leading actor. Then when they made another movie about a man who sacrifices everything for his career and gets poorly-CGI superpowers that result in his alternate personality eating people, it just didn’t come out as well.

Since his performance as the Joker in 2016, I have not been a fan of Jared Leto. Leto has been the figurehead for extreme method acting in recent years, and not in a good way. For his minor role in Suicide Squad, he terrorized and harassed the other people on cast to “stay in character,” then put on an incredibly mediocre and awkward performance as his gangster iteration of the Clown Prince of Crime.

The Daily Beast said it best when they said, “There’s nothing admirable about risking your health or putting your co-workers through hell for the sake of a movie no one will reference in three years.”

In Morbius, he just pretended to have a medical condition like his character, Dr. Michael Morbius, who was born with a degenerative blood disease which gives him limited mobility. To stay in the headspace of a character with a lifelong terminal blood disease, Leto would only respond to Morbius’ name and walk around set on his character’s crutches, making production more difficult for the crew. If you’re going to act like a tool the entirety of production, at least be a good leading actor.

According to Rotten Tomatoes critic, Justin Brown, “A lot of this movie made zero sense. Trying to take elements from "No Way Home" and insert them in here was very misguided. This is an incredibly bad comic book film that revolves around one of the least interesting Spiderman villains.”

A good way to determine whether an action/superhero movie is good is to not only look at the action but mostly evaluate the scenes between the action. Morbius just had no worthwhile dialogue and did a poor job at creating an emotional attachment to literally any character. You know a movie is bad when the main two characters are terminally ill, and you just feel nothing for them at any point in the movie. There wasn’t a single character who died that made the tone of the movie change at all.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a big Matt Smith fan. Last Night in Soho was one of my favorite films of 2021, and this proves he can play an exciting villain. He’s also my favorite Doctor in Doctor Who, but what the heck was his character in Morbius? His character, Loxias Crown, was just a poorly written character. First, he was for some reason called “Milo” the whole time by every character from his and Morbius’ past in a failed attempt to give the two main characters a quirky detail from their childhood to stay bonded over. Then, the “villain who is basically the hero but a little meaner and stronger” arch was pushed really hard.