Unlike his butchering of the iconic Joker, Jared Leto does a decent job of playing Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who accidentally turns himself into a vampire after attempting to cure a rare blood condition he’s had since childhood.
In the comics, Morbius is a complex and tragically flawed character who struggles to come to terms with his pseudo-vampiric persona and his insatiable lust for human blood. He is by no means meant to be a good guy, eventually going on to become a “nightmarish vigilante” in later comics. That’s all good and well, but what a wonderful springboard to jump off of when digging into the complexities of coming to terms with having turned yourself into a monster all in an attempt to do the right thing.
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