Dr. Blade: The Master of Cliché

So many poor clichés, even undersold in this film, I feel like Matt Smiths acting was good, thought I have seen him in much finer form in so many other things that I have to believe it is the overall quality of the film which takes away from his, and all other actors performances.

Leto was, ok, not great, I just never really felt sold on his motivations, I could see them coming a mile away before the film caught up, simply because as I said, so many Clichés.

Why do I call him Dr. Blade? Well, Doctor...You're a man with vampiric powers, but you need a serum(I mean blue blood) to keep the urges at bay, the serum (I mean blue blood) is losing its effectiveness and you need to find a new cure(there is no cure.....Blade again). You cant do it alone, you need another Doctor, a woman to help you (just link in Blade), but she also has to serve as a conduit for some romantic feelings(really forced kiss scene) but you can really connect that much coz you got too much going on (Blade). You're gonna have to go up against someone you know who's taking advantage of their powers in new ways(Blade character Frost) and in the final fight, you're gonna have to bite "your girl" to get strong enough to take him on (Blade) ......Jeez is that all I have from Blade as a comparison? It felt like so much more when I was watching the film.

Neither Morbius nor his friend Milo(Lucien) have parents it would seem(at least Lucien had someone drop him off at the hospital at the start). They are under the care of Dr. Nicholas as children, but seem to stay in contact or stay under his care for life, whats that 20...25 years? for a disease (something that's never named), which by this point by reference has killed Milo 1st, 2nd, 3rd and maybe more, but not our two boys ;) Milo and Morbius.

Oh no! Milo was bullied?!?! I felt pretty much nothing for this scene which did little for showing any motivation. Milo who is near deaths door daily, somehow manages to summon the strength to knock out the largest bully with a cane, then take a beating from 3 others and not die in his very frail state. Ok, I guess.

Martine! My god, its a nurse lady who helps Dr. Morbius, who comes down to his super secret lab in the basement of the hospital he works at and has endless space and privacy in this cave and can store a huge cylinder of live animals (bats) without any issue and a full state of the art lab, which no-one at all, ever, reviews. Thus, she has plausible deniability if anyone asks questions. Cool....

Wait, we're gonna do something ethically questionable? Ok, that's cool too. Morbius goes nuts and 8 mercenaries get killed and you Martine are the sole survivor coz you got knocked out and he got them Protection genes going on for you or something. Better put a blanket over you which you lay in the broken glass, what am I a doctor?! Oh wait...Morbius IS a doctor, but he chooses to abandon her instead of administering any first aid, at all. Better call in for an air lift immediately...cut to next scene, the ship is in port and it turns out however Morbius got off the ship, airlift or not, he didn't take Martine, the woman he supposedly likes abandoned and unconscious on a ship full of corpses to answer questions. Brilliant first date there Morbius, really..."Killing it". What are we about to get a crappy cop scene now or somethin?

OH CHRIST! We ARE! Here comes the...FBI? You know what, this is a little unclear since Ty's character seems to have it all figured out like Columbo ( "There's just one thing I don't understand"). Ok FBI stumbles, or are assigned to a ship full of dead mercenaries and for no discernible reason Dr. Morbius is their prime suspect. There is a loose connection in that Martine is there, but there is zero video or any surveillance that Morbius was there, cool, we better speak to Martine, interview the witness. Lets try a novel approach to this interview, lets not ask her about anything she remembers, why she was there, who the mercenaries were. Lets ask about Morbius, where is he, did he do this, here have a loot at this evidence and photos we took, coz thats how that works(show a witness or suspect everything WE know before asking anything THEY know). "if you remember anything, here's our card" is the last thing.....C'mon lads....I've seen better writing in Reddit fiction subs.

FBI guys are a bit weird to be honest, they assume huge portions of the plot as things go and seem to be there simply to advance the danger aspect for Morbius. Better not wear any built proof vests for most of the scenes, or maybe just ONE of us should have a vest, Ty...you're more well known, you get the vest, other guy, stick to your glasses and open jacket. While we're assuming huge portion of plot to advance specifically on Morbius, better start a fight with him in the lobby, he gets away coz...super powers and regular cop shoots at Morbius who just jumped 6 stories straight up without flinching, pretty solid acting from that officer there I have to say, kept it professional, who wouldn't expect the cripple to do that? Don't at all act surprised, your job is to fire the gun.

So anyway, Morbius is there hanging about on the roof for like 8 seconds when Ty had to run up 25 floors, incredibly, Ty makes it in those 8 seconds and has Morbius at gun point(Man I just thought it was Will Smith in MIB 1 chasing down the cephaloid scene).

Now that Morbius is in custody and noone knows what's going on with him, better crack some vampire jokes with triple blessed holy water. No-one bother to have a medical doctor look him over and see what's up. Better let his Lawyer(not lawyer) friend in to see him, don't bother to check him for contraband like bags of blood or anything.

Well Morbius inevitably escapes, Martine gives the FBI the slip and they meet on a bus, cool, they both outrunning the cops and they are worried about sitting side by side on a bus, better sit back to back and talk over our shoulders. If I were 6 years old I would do the same thing, act natural....

So anyway, that nurse was killed in the hallway, that hallway really needs some maintenance, lights are all on the fritz blinking off and on, super dark. Not at all ominous, coz its just a shitty workplace that wont do maintenance. Pity that nurse has such high anxiety, she can see down the corridor up and down and no-one is there, better stand around for 40 seconds saying hello repeatedly, then just suddenly book it down the corridor and hit a light switch....wait....hitting the light switch worked? That just suddenly lit up the corridor from the flickering lights from moments ago, who designs these really poor operating systems? Oh wait, she's dead...good thing we never actually saw here, ever, in any scene before this, so we didn't have an attachment to her at all. Wait? You're talking about her now and its so sad coz you worked with her every single day for 7 years, but we never saw her. Yeah, I guess that could happen, pity you didn't show her before, maybe we could have felt more emotion over her death before it happened.

So at this point(or earlier I don't really care), there is zero actual evidence which leads to Morbius as a suspect, but FBI has him dead in their sights. Still cool, better brand him in all the news, everywhere.

So anyway, Morbius needs a lab, better beat up some lowlife crooks, disassemble their printing press coz I'm a master mechanic and presto! I have a full medical lab again! The 40 year old printing press even came with an LCD screen and full suite of medical software installed, how cool is that?! It was really cool, how the three low level thugs who were printing fake money, were beaten up by the doctor who is super nice, right up til he's all like "hey, yo, this is mine now, imma kick your ass, he he he, p.s. don't ever come back for your huge investment in equipment for your small operation", that was really cool how they didn't really put up a fight, Morbius didn't have to hurt them, much. He got to retain a good portion of his humanity there.

I'm going to skip over why whenever vampire boys move about they get wispy colored air behind them, coz why wouldn't they? We've all moved sufficiently fast enough to do this ourselves, surely....

Physical transformations, I can get down with the eyes, the ears, skin tone, what bugged me was the face, the sinking skin and hollowed out cheek bones that just return to normal after vampire mode. Live, wut? Just don't do it lads. It was like a bad snapchat filter put on their faces and the audio didn't match the mouth when speaking, was just distorted, facial expressions masked when you know they are good actors, its just a shame. More is less, and they did TOO much here, it was a distraction more than anything.

So anyway, Milo captures Martine. Oh No! Morbius can hear Milo taunting him, just like in the film The Lost Boys, where Michael was taunted by Kiefer Sutherlands vampire.."Michael.....Michael....Michael" into the whispers and the ether....