Morgan (2016)

Pretty Good

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This movie had so much potential but they turned it into a psycho-fest with idiotic plot points.Idiot 1: After watching the AI stab a fellow worker in the eye, they all just wanted love on the AIIdiot 2: The psychiatrist goes into the cage with the AI and decides to piss it off until it eats his throat.Idiot 3: The writer who had the AI eat someone's throatIdiot 4: So now everyone is dying and a guy finally decides maybe his rifle is in order but instead of shooting the AI from where he's standing, he runs right at the AI telling it to stop instead of, you know, shooting it and preventing it from killing his, albeit it shallow, love interest. Of course the AI grabs the gun from the idiot's hands and kills him with it. I mean why else would you run at the AI shouting stop if not to complete your plot point by dying.The sad thing is this movie was a great idea and set up well but literally, they couldn't help themselves. I'm guessing this was written by liberal children with the emotional growth of the average 8 year old.

---May contain spoilers--- Good movie bad ending worst possible ending.I would give it 10/10 but that ending was so dumb.Why would they do such a dumb ending i cant comprehend.This aside the movie is great.Its not a dumb mindless action movie it actually has a good story.Just watched it.

Amazing person, love her to death. Would do anything for her. She is cool. I know her IRL. I see her at school basically everyday, besides that one...(two) days I was gone, pretty sad ik... But anyways, shes great! Shes funny, shes has amazing cats. I enjoy talking with her everyday. Oh.. And this movie is cool. Never watched it. Heard it was great. 10/10 IGN, would not watch again.

Morgan (2016) was billed as a promising new sci-fi horror/mystery movie, but quickly falls flat. It stars Kate Mara as Lee Weathers, a "corporate consultant," Anya Taylor-Joy as Morgan, and Rose Leslie as a behavior specialist. Paul Giamatti makes a notable appearance as the only character with emotional depth. Going into the film, I thought it was going to explore the ethical issue of genetic manipulation and cybernetic enhancement. I thought it would pose an interesting dilemma to the audience about whether research of this nature should be pursued, like Ex Machina (2015) did for artificial intelligence. Boy, was I disappointed.First, the film was deceptively marketed. It's not a mystery and it barely passes for horror. Its IMDb summery is, "A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being," but that's not actually the plot. Spoiler alert: the end of the film reveals that the corporate consultant was actually a genetically-enhanced assassin, and the whole exercise was an excuse to see whether her version could defeat the newer version, Morgan. So, in the end, there's never a question about whether Morgan should be terminated, and the protagonist never solves a mystery–she knew what Morgan was the whole time. The result was a boilerplate chase/assassin thriller.In one of the best scenes, Paul Giamatti's character, Dr. Alan Shapiro, attempts to evaluate Morgan's emotional development and ends up inciting her to violence, kicking off the second half of the film. In the context of the first half of the film, this scene makes no sense. Morgan had already demonstrated a propensity for violence. Why did Dr. Shapiro insist on entering the room with her? Why did he provoke her when he knew she was likely to assault him? Also, when they first met she demonstrated the ability to read his mind–why did he still believe he could manipulate her? It only makes sense as a plot device to set up a battle between Morgan and Lee Weathers.Of course, this raises a huge question. If Morgan was a genetically engineered assassin, why was the corporation and her project supervisor, Dr. Lui Cheng, so concerned when she exhibited violent behavior? Why did they consider more emotional assassins to be worthy of development in the first place? Lee Weathers' cold, impersonal demeanor didn't seem to inhibit her in any way. She still accomplished her mission. If you were a multinational corporation spending billions of dollars on genetic research, would investing all those resources into making a more emotional assassin make any sense? And, would it make sense to terminate her at the first sign your research had succeeded? There were little things that bothered me too. In one scene, Lee Weathers was locked in Morgan's enclosure and escaped by climbing up a shaft and breaking out the skylight. Why couldn't Morgan have figured that out and made a similar escape? Later, she is shown effortlessly driving and executing maneuvers in a high speed chase and besting Lee Weathers in hand to hand combat. Where did she learn these skills? If the research team was kept in the dark about her ultimate purpose, I doubt they were teaching her martial arts on the side. I also find it hard to believe Morgan could quickly pick up these skills, but then not be able to figure out how to escape through the skylight.Morgan was a promising concept with a decent cast. I actually like the actors and actresses in this movie, especially Kate Mara and Rose Leslie. It's almost worth seeing just for Paul Giamatti's performance. The movie as a whole, however, was poorly executed. The entire assassin angle seemed contrived and unbelievable.If Morgan was actually as advertised–a dilemma over the fate of a genetically enhanced child who displays violent tendencies–it would have been an interesting film. Instead, that plot is undermined by boring car chases and a prolonged duel between two sociopathic, superhuman characters. Finally, the revelation at the end made everything that came before it completely meaningless. It's unfortunate the writers took it in that direction.