Morbius
2022 · Directed by Daniel Espinosa
Woke Score
CriticCritic Score
Audience
Ultra Based
Critics rated this 27 points above its woke score. Among Ultra Based films, this critic score ranks #1395 of 1469.
Representation Casting
Score: 25/100
The film includes racial diversity through Tyrese Gibson and Adria Arjona in supporting roles, but these characters lack depth and the lead remains white. The diversity feels incidental rather than intentional.
LGBTQ+ Themes
Score: 0/100
No LGBTQ+ representation, themes, or subtext present in the film.
Feminist Agenda
Score: 10/100
Female characters are minimal and exist primarily in relation to the male protagonist. No feminist themes or perspectives are explored.
Racial Consciousness
Score: 15/100
While the cast includes performers of color, the film demonstrates no engagement with racial themes or consciousness.
Climate Crusade
Score: 0/100
No environmental themes, climate consciousness, or ecological messaging present.
Eat the Rich
Score: 0/100
The film contains no critique of capitalism, wealth systems, or corporate power structures.
Body Positivity
Score: 0/100
The protagonist's condition and transformation are portrayed as something to be cured or overcome, not celebrated. No body positivity messaging.
Neurodivergence
Score: 5/100
While the protagonist has a rare medical condition, it is treated as a disease to be cured through scientific intervention rather than as neurodivergence to be accepted.
Revisionist History
Score: 0/100
The film contains no historical elements or revisionist historical messaging.
Lecture Energy
Score: 15/100
The film occasionally explains its plot mechanics and scientific concepts, but lacks the preachy, instructional quality characteristic of high lecture energy.
Synopsis
Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
Consciousness Assessment
Morbius stands as a curious artifact of contemporary superhero filmmaking, a project so determinedly uninterested in the cultural preoccupations of its era that it achieves a kind of inadvertent innocence. The film concerns itself with the mechanics of its plot, the tortured moral ambiguity of its protagonist, and the execution of action sequences. These are legitimate pursuits, and yet the film's refusal to engage with any broader social consciousness reads almost as a deliberate act of abstention. The supporting cast includes performers of color, but they exist as functional elements within a narrative that has no particular interest in their cultural specificity or lived experience. Jared Leto's Morbius suffers from a rare blood disorder, but the film treats this condition not as an occasion for examining disability or bodily difference, but rather as a plot device to be overcome through scientific intervention. The tone throughout oscillates between gothic thriller and action spectacle without landing firmly in either, a tonal uncertainty that extends to its complete absence of contemporary political consciousness. What emerges is a film content to operate within the conventions of mid-budget superhero entertainment, asking nothing of its audience beyond the acceptance of its internal logic. In this sense, Morbius is almost refreshingly uncomplicated, a movie that seems to have missed the memo that cinema in the 2020s was supposed to be thinking about something.
Analysis generated by our Consciousness Algorithm
Critic Reviews
“Seek this out if you like superhero films that are especially dark.”
“Against all odds, Morbius is an intelligent, human story.”
“Swedish-Chilean director Daniel Espinosa (Life) gives it all a dark sheen, and shoots the pair's inevitable confrontations less like traditional comic-book clashes than something from The Matrix. ”
“It is charmless, incoherent, ugly and so aggressively stupid that it defies any attempt to shove it into the desperate “guilty pleasure” box.”
Consciousness Markers
The film includes racial diversity through Tyrese Gibson and Adria Arjona in supporting roles, but these characters lack depth and the lead remains white. The diversity feels incidental rather than intentional.
No LGBTQ+ representation, themes, or subtext present in the film.
Female characters are minimal and exist primarily in relation to the male protagonist. No feminist themes or perspectives are explored.
While the cast includes performers of color, the film demonstrates no engagement with racial themes or consciousness.
No environmental themes, climate consciousness, or ecological messaging present.
The film contains no critique of capitalism, wealth systems, or corporate power structures.
The protagonist's condition and transformation are portrayed as something to be cured or overcome, not celebrated. No body positivity messaging.
While the protagonist has a rare medical condition, it is treated as a disease to be cured through scientific intervention rather than as neurodivergence to be accepted.
The film contains no historical elements or revisionist historical messaging.
The film occasionally explains its plot mechanics and scientific concepts, but lacks the preachy, instructional quality characteristic of high lecture energy.