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Spoilers below
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Morbius begins with Michael receiving the Nobel Prize but after he collapses during his acceptance speech, a flashback takes us to his childhood where we learn that he was bullied as a youngster due to his inability to walk. Jared Leto's Dr. Emil Nikos soon proves himself a valuable ally to the young Michael, though, and takes him under his wing.
Back in the present day, it's clear that Michael's condition is getting worse and that he doesn't have long left. While his wife - Adria Arjona's Martine Bancroft - attempts to help him, he's rapidly losing patience and seems desperate to cure himself by any means necessary.
It definitely sounds like Morbius will be a sympathetic character and the fact he's disabled is a big change to the comic books. In those, he was just dying when he inadvertently transformed himself into "Living Vampire" but now the changes he goes through look set to be even more meaningful as he regains the use of his legs and a whole lot more besides.
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Every good comic book movie needs a villain and that's where Matt Smith's Loxias Crown comes in. For reasons which don't become clear until later in the movie, he confronts Morbius and presents him with a briefcase and his business card after telling Michael that there is indeed a cure for his illness.
Vowing to explore radical ways to cure himself, Morbius eventually opens the case and finds a dead bat inside along with a giant, ancient knife. His tests prove that the bat is, in fact, a vampire bat but nothing special beyond that. Bancroft isn't convinced but a desperate Michael calls Crown and asks what that this all means.
It's then that he learns of a cave in Brazil which has the properties needed to cure him and while his wife warns him against the path he's about to set out on, Michael is having none of it. The stage is set for what sounds like a tragic origin story for the character as his desperation finally gets the best of him.
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The trailer for Morbius highlighted the moment Michael manages to cure himself and it doesn't sound like there's actually much more to it than what we saw there. Things do, however, head down a darker route than expected which definitely points to the film having some horror elements.
After making his way to that mysterious cave via a helicopter, a voiceover from Crown explains what the doctor needs to do and while Michaels pays off the men who accompanied him to ensure their silence, they all die anyway when the bats come flying out of the cave. What a way to go, eh?
Morbius, meanwhile, passes out after one of the bats feeds on his bloodied hand and later sneaks on to a cargo ship which is heading back to New York after wandering through Brazil in a daze. His transformation is beginning but everything Crown promised appears to have been accurate as he is indeed cured of the condition which was slowly killing him.
Alas, he now has a very different affliction which is quite a bit worse as the pirates who attack that ship are about to learn...
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The cargo ship Michael is hiding out on is attacked by pirates and that gives him the opportunity to unleash his newfound abilities. While it doesn't sound like he knows what's happening to him, Morbius' newfound bloodlust sees him take these men out one by one and, interestingly, the entire thing is compared to something out of the Alien franchise.
That's because the character is obscured by shadow or shown attacking them with POV (point of view) shots only, and that lends some credibility to past claims that Sony will make good use of horror movie elements for this one.
Eventually, we get to that memorable shot from the trailers you see above and Morbius later jumps from the ship and swims back to New York City. This really does sound like it could be a standout sequence in the Marvel Comics adaptation and definitely an improvement over the laughable scenes in Venom which saw Eddie Brock discover his Symbiote's abilities while driving through the streets of San Francisco on his motorbike!
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Back in the Big Apple, a confused Michael heads into a bar and asks that an ambulance be called. While this is happening, he watches a TV with a report from TheDailyBugle.net's J. Jonah Jameson talking about the dead bodies which were found on a cargo ship bound for New York.
There have been rumblings for a while that the character played by J.K. Simmons will link these movies together and something tells us he'll blame Spider-Man for these murders! Using Jameson to tie everything together is a smart move on Sony's part and there's not a fan on the planet who will be disappointed seeing more of him as the iconic comic book character.
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Michael is later reunited with Bancroft and Nikos but locks himself in a containment chamber to protect them. His bloodlust quickly becomes too much but Martine is able to knock him out and return her husband to his office while they attempt to figure out what to do next.
