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MORGAN

2016 GB HMDB
septiembre 1, 2016

Una compañía tecnológica crea una inteligencia artificial, sin ser conscientes de su verdadero potencial. Cuando las cosas comienzan a salirse de su control, deciden contratar a una especialista (Kate Mara) para determinar si acabar con la criatura o mantenerla encendida.

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Produccion: Aidan Elliott (Executive Producer)George F. Heller (Executive Producer)Elishia Holmes (Executive Producer)Mark Huffam (Producer)Michael Schaefer (Producer)Ridley Scott (Producer)
Guion: Seth W. Owen (Writer)
Musica: Max Richter (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Mark Patten (Director of Photography)

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Dentro de un establecimiento científico, la doctora Kathy Grieff está sentada en una mesa para realizar una entrevista con una extraña niña encapuchada que, mientras se habla de las salidas libres, agrede a la mujer golpeándola en un ojo con varios cortes de arma blanca. Tras el incidente, se envía al lugar a Lee Weaters, experta en la evaluación de riesgos, para controlar la situación y el estado de los experimentos en nombre de la empresa que financia los trabajos. Morgan, de hecho, no es una niña como las demás, pero, como explica su "padre científico", el doctor Ziegler, fue creada a partir de ADN sintético y no fue diseñada para experimentar ningún tipo de emociones o sentimientos. Cuando un psicólogo la provoca y la agrede verbalmente durante la entrevista de evaluación, Morgan despierta el sistema nervioso y emocional latente y, a partir de ese momento, comienza a llevar a cabo una feroz venganza que se concreta en una larga serie de asesinatos y una lucha encarnizada con la misma Lee Weaters, quien, en realidad, muestra cualidades insospechables dado su aspecto. La historia del cine está llena de hijos de artistas que intentan seguir, de una u otra manera, los pasos de sus padres, con resultados a veces excelentes, si no superiores, y otras menos alentadores, por no decir decepcionantes. A esta larga lista se suma Luke Scott, hijo del más famoso Ridley, quien, tras una carrera que, en verdad, no ha sido muy prolífica, con solo un corto y un episodio de la ya antigua serie de televisión "The Hunger" en su haber, decide hacer su debut como director de largometrajes adentrándose en el género más querido por su padre: la ciencia ficción. Su "Morgan", de hecho, es una película de ciencia ficción que, sin embargo, se mezcla con algunos toques de terror y acción en algunos puntos. Lo que resulta de esto es un auténtico batiburrillo, una película muy confusa, con ritmos lentos y soporíferos, y poco atractiva no solo para los aficionados al género, sino también para los espectadores ocasionales que, por lo general, se conforman con poco para divertirse y disfrutar de un poco de espectáculo de baja calidad. Las palabras innovación y ganas de arriesgarse no parecen estar presentes en el vocabulario de Scott, quien elige seguir caminos seguros y moverse dentro de esa larga tradición que, desde "Frankenstein" en adelante, tiene como protagonista una criatura creada de la nada en un laboratorio y que luego se rebela contra su amo sembrando muerte y destrucción. El monstruo en cuestión es una niña cuyo aspecto, hay que decirlo, es ciertamente inquietante gracias a una capucha que solo deja entrever el mal y las ganas de venganza que arden en su mirada de hielo, propia de quien no es capaz de sentir emociones. El gran problema es que toda la primera mitad de la película, jugada por completo en la espera de que Morgan desate el infierno, más que convertirse en un acumulador de tensión y suspense, resulta ser una presentación fastidiosa e innecesaria de los personajes, los ambientes interiores (incluso la cocina se muestra con cuidado) y explicaciones científicas poco claras y superficiales. A esta primera mitad bastante decepcionante le sigue una segunda mitad solo en parte con ritmos más animados gracias a una vena de terror presente sobre todo en la secuencia de la conversación entre Morgan y el psicólogo. En esta escena, de hecho, el sentido de ansiedad transmitido por los tonos amenazantes del hombre y el comportamiento agresivo de la niña asusta al espectador y lo hace partícipe de la historia hasta el punto de la agresión consiguiente, que representa quizá uno de los momentos más logrados de la película de Scott. Sin embargo, sigue siendo un fuego fugaz, porque con el paso de los minutos la trama se aplana nuevamente, alineándose en carriles más cercanos a las películas de acción, proponiendo un conjunto de cosas ya vistas y culminando en un final predecible y poco creíble. Entre las pocas notas positivas podemos mencionar la elección del reparto, en particular una Kate Mara excelente en interpretar un personaje sorprendente y ambiguo, como el de Lee Weathers, y Anya Taylor-Joy, ya vista en "The Witch", que confirma ser una joven actriz de la que se hablará mucho en el futuro. En resumen, al menos por esta vez, el dicho "la sangre no miente" no puede aplicarse a Scott junior.
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Following in your film-making father’s footsteps can be perceived either as a credible career choice or an inevitable curse. So the question is put forth to Morgan first-time director Luke Scott as he oversees this kinetic but overly familiar choppy and saggy sci-fi horror-thriller. Of course Luke is the son of famed Alien and Blade Runner movie mastermind Ridley Scott–the co-producer of his offspring’s muddled and mediocre futuristic feature.

Sure, the young Scott incorporates some of the elder Scott’s cinematic flourishes but for the most part Morgan toys around with interesting philosophical concepts and perceptions but fails to make any of these adventurous ingredients gel with any lingering forethought beyond the identity of a probing and generic genetics-oriented melodrama.

Indeed, Morgan has its moments of energetic lapses but the tension is telegraphed from miles away. There is something superficial about the manufactured dilemma in Morgan that simply misses the mark in mustering any legitimate skepticism about artificial intelligent ingenues gone roguish. The continued genre of artificial human beings–male or female–seems like a fascinating fable to tap into the mind of humanistic arrogance and progression. With past showcases as Michael Crichton’s Westworld or Steven Spielberg’s A.I. one can see the preoccupation with revisiting this film phenom topic especially in the age of millennium movie-making. Unfortunately, the arrival of the mediocre Morgan does not quite follow a glorious path in this cinematic tradition.

The center of attention in this lucrative experimentation of artificial life forms involves a “girl” named Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy). The construction of Morgan is quite ambitious as she is composed of synthetic DNA while placed physically in the body of a wild-child acting teenager. Morgan has the mentality (and physicality) of 5-year old lab-grown specimen kid and we get to check out her so-called psychological malfunctioning when she aggressively attacks Dr. Kathy Grieff (Academy Award nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight”) in her claustrophobic room. When Morgan tragically stabs Dr. Grieff in the eyeball we are bluntly hit over the head with the brutal hinting that this little hoodie-wearing dangerous diva is a walking disastrous time-bomb waiting to happen among the opportunistic human lab technician capitalists that invented her caustic existence.

Enter Lee Weathers (Kate Mara). Corporate risk analyst consultant Lee is sent by her profitable employer to the remote testing lab where Morgan was conceived to obviously oversee their expensive investment in the artificially crafted feminine pet project that now is showing telling signs of defiance and disobedience. The uncontrollable Morgan is an unhinged handful to contain and the lab staff at the facility are scattering about to contain the selective damage done by her destructive hands. In general, the massive and deep-wooded compound that houses Morgan and the various doctors, lab techs, researchers and business associates that come in unison for the sake of human technological tampering is a sinister setting to say the least.

Morgan is downright deadly and not a techno-tart to tangle with at will. As Dr. Kathy continues to nurse her severe eye-related wounds inflicted by the haunting human-like honeybun with indescribable speed and strength the other facility caretakers realize that the brooding Morgan may in fact be too much to handle for the self-appointed brilliant scientific minds that gave her questionable life. Among the brainy bunch that are trying to lasso the unpredictable tiny terror is Morgan’s main creator in the Nervous Ned-like persona of geeky Dr. Simon Ziegler (Toby Jones). Dr. Lui Cheng (Michelle Yeoh from “Mechanic: Resurrection”) is not new to the controversial rodeo where humanoid experimentation is concerned (resulting in Lui’s former colleague’s tragic fates). Married doctors in Brenda and Darren Finch (Vinette Robinson and Chris Sullivan) hold some glossy parental fondness for the hostile teen-experiment-in-turmoil. Dr. Amy Menser (“Game of Thrones” star Rose Leslie) has eerily taken some head-scratching “fancy” to the youthful Morgan that goes beyond inappropriate means. Rounding out the colorful group that cater to the facility functioning (and Morgan’s every step of chaos) is Lee’s tour guide Ted (Michael Yare) and cooking guru Skip Vronsky (Boyd Holbrook).

Morgan has some tension-filled wallop that resonates occasionally but the draggy drama never quite stimulates to the point of presenting Taylor-Joy’s lab-table vixen as nothing more that a brutish brat with a temper. The thought of Taylor-Joy’s minor-aged monster being unleashed on an unsuspecting world must have looked intriguing on the creative drawing board. However, being a pesky thorn in the side of misguided scientific minds does not exactly spell tasty devastation on society as a whole. In fact, we find ourselves cheering for the maligned Morgan to knock off these myopic medical duds to get some guilty pleasure relief from this lethal but lumbering horror sideshow.

Owens’s labored script is never challenging enough to buy into the cynicism of the profitable propaganda involving artificial intelligence at the expense of human curiosities.** Morgan** routinely dips into the blank coldness of hollow despair with only Taylor-Joy’s random naughtiness as the reliant stimulant. Mara’s Lee Weathers is surprisingly effective as the truth-seeking corporate drone out to uncover the mysteries of Morgan and the pricey lab compound that needs to prove its usefulness to her inquiring organization. Paul Giamatti pops up as the only sensible soul diagnosing the unwound Morgan as a potential toxic teen to the world environment.

There is some slickness and saucy sentiments to the uneven Morgan but it channels nothing dynamically distinctive from other considerable fare that competently tapped into this theme with more profoundly in-depth pizzazz and promise. Morgan may be a super-powered enigma and the hard-nosed Lee Weathers wants this frenzied freak show deactivated and put out of her misery. This is rather funny because the true troubleshooters that need deactivation are the Morgan-made manipulators (both on screen and off screen) that should return to the lukewarm lab room.

Morgan (2016)

Scott Free Films

1 hr. 32 mins.

Starring: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Leslie, Vinette Robinson, Chris Sullivan, Boyd Holbrook, Michael Yare

Directed by: Luke Scott

MPAA Rating: R

Genre: Horror & Science Fiction/Fantasy & Technology/Artificial Intelligence Drama

Critic’s rating: ** stars (out of 4 stars)

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5 /10

Knowing it's a research, the mistake is emotionally attached to the subject!

A nicely made sci-fi-thriller, but the entire storyline was built on a very familiar plot. You can find it similarities with 'Splice', 'Uncanny' and 'Ex Machina', but I think overall not a bad attempt. I did not get impressed, so do most of the people who saw those films, especially the end scene. Though it is entertaining, particularly when it turns into an action mode.

The corporate that invested in a research sends an investigator named Lee after the project was met with a small accident. During an interview, the chaos unleashes and the lab started to fall apart. The survivours does not know who to trust, but decides to save their subject. What really follows after that will be totally unexpected and another twist before the final credits.

Knowing it's a research, the mistake is emotionally attached to the subject. That's what all the similar topic films reveal. Then what's the point of doing such test, being doctor, studied psychology. For a film plot, they wanted to use the human sentiments and errors. Otherwise, science does not really deal like what was shown in this film.

From a new director, with the decent actors, particularly Kate Mara's best in an action avatar. I liked the Anya in the film 'The Witch' and this is another good performance by her in the title role. Felt like it is a short film, because the pace was so good, even though the story was a one-liner. Minimal cast film and takes place in a remote place secret research lab. A film not for everyone, but not bad for once viewing.

5/10

ColinJ

ColinJ

7 /10

While critically reviled, I found this to be a taut, tense genre exercise driven by a superb performance from Anya Taylor-Joy.

Key-Si

Key-Si

Morgan is a great Science Fiction movie. Horror... not so much. The acting is believable and even though this movie will not blow your mind, it is very enjoyable. The first half drags a bit, but as things get going, the movie shows its stronger side. I found myself not being bored of it at all and Luke Scott, the son of Ridley Scott, directed this one very well. The movie looks great, the sound is top notch and Morgan is the ideal movie to just lean back, relax and open a pack of chips.

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