Review of Morgan (2016) by Hotelcentral — 24 Feb 2019

The story here is a bit on the predictable side, but pretty solid and well-constructed, which is a good indication that Ridley Scott had very little to do with the story.

The thought that kept me guessing concerns the Lee Weathers character. She is played in a very non-emotional (almost robotic) way. So my first guess was maybe she's a hybrid too. But if Morgan is the most advanced hybrid to come along, as seems to be implied, then why would anyone take the chance of letting the Lee Weathers hybrid run around on her own. And if you want the answer to this you'll have to watch to the end. And I do recommend you watch it to the end.

The main flaw in the film, of course, is that a corporation with the moral compass to utilize trained assassins as "risk management specialists" would surely have put some kind of "security" operative on the site of the science project that produces "Morgan," simply because it makes more sense to have an assassin there before things go wrong, rather than hours or days after the fact. The obvious choice would've been the only person not trained as a scientist (i.e. the cook and nutritionist), but somebody missed that one by a mile and my guess is it was Scott, since he seems to miss the boat on a lot of things, especially when it comes to story.

But on the whole it's a good film and definitely worth a try.

Why all the negative reviews? Well, in the beginning of the film there's a lot of characters engaging in dialog. They don't have guns or rocket launchers in their hands while doing this dialog thing. They're not even talking like they're really mad. It's all about developing the "story." It's about drama, tension, suspense. Unfortunately, a lot of people think that blazing guns and bloody splatter defines what "drama" should be.