A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being. Who writes this crap? The characters are written to be so utterly stupid and inept. Aren't they all Doctors? Aren't they meant to be the brightest of their time? No one in their right mind would behave the way they have written them in this film and as a result, the whole film is one long frustratingly stupid movie to watch. I was literally yelling at the screen for someone to actually behave like you would if a serious threat was coming at you. <br/><br/>The premise is basically the same as Ex-Machina but at least that film didn't write everyone as a complete moron!<br/><br/>If you want your sanity, stay away from this film! Morgan follows a risk consultant who goes to a lab where an artificial human has been made to assist in performing a psychiatric evaluation and decide whether or not the artificial life is dangerous or not. <br/><br/>For starters the actors are all pretty good in their roles, specifically Kate Mara and Rose Leslie. Mara pulls off a reasonably flat but regardless intriguing character, and Leslie is a much more emotionally driven character, which she also manages to pull off pretty well. <br/><br/>The pacing is fantastic in this movie. I didn't expect this at all, but the movie keeps itself going without skipping a beat. It never wastes time on too much development, but it develops the characters enough to get the audience relatively invested. It knows exactly how to handle itself and thus ceases to bore. <br/><br/>When the action started it was often pretty fast-paced. While it wasn't great, the choreography was clearly better than most movies, it just could have done with less quick camera cuts. Otherwise the director clearly knew how to do action, and did it fairly well as a result. <br/><br/>The end of the movie is exactly what I didn't expect. It's pretty intense, and it's completely unpredictable. It hints at it with subtle foreshadowing throughout the movie that you'd actually have to be looking for to find, and I really appreciated that. And yet the ending didn't just blatantly explain what happened. It treated the audience like a bunch of adults watching an R rated movie who can figure things out on their own. It has a level of respect for the audience, which was quite a nice break from a lot of other movies I've seen as of late. <br/><br/>The movie does suffer in terms of writing from time to time. More often than not when characters curse it was like they were doing it for the sake of getting an R rating, not because it actually worked with the movie or flowed naturally into the dialogue. Characters would cuss in really calm tones of voice while something bad was about to happen/happening, and it just never really fit. It ended up being way too forced. Some other writing choices didn't work either, but most of them are easy to brush off or at least somewhat understandable.<br/><br/>Overall Morgan is definitely a competently made movie. The pacing is excellent, the action is good, the acting is mostly good, but the writing suffers a little from time to time. In the end I would definitely recommend this movie. Morgan isn’t hard sci-fi. It isn’t trying to solve the questions that have suffused the genre since its inception. Rather, it couches those ever-more-timely concerns in scenes of high action and affecting character connection.
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