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MORGAN

2016 GB HMDB
settembre 1, 2016

In un laboratorio ben nascosto un gruppo di scienziati monitora i progressi di un progetto estremamente segreto: si tratta di un androide, ed in particolare di un modello ancora in via di sperimentazione. Morgan si apre con queste immagini catturate da una telecamera di sorveglianza, che registra un incidente: la ragazza inspiegabilmente sale sul tavolo ed infilza nell'occhio una delle dottoresse. L’episodio mette in discussione l’intero progetto e la multinazionale invia una persona di fiducia a verificare la situazione, una giovane, misteriosa consulente .

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

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All’interno di uno stabilimento scientifico la dottoressa Kathy Grieff è seduta ad un tavolo per effettuare un colloquio con una strana ragazzina incappucciata la quale, mente si parla delle libere uscite, aggredisce la donna colpendola ad un occhio con diversi colpi di arma da taglio. A seguito dell’incidente viene inviata sul posto Lee Weaters, esperte nella valutazione dei rischi, per controllare la situazione e lo stato degli esperimenti per conto dell’azienda che finanzia i lavori. Morgan, infatti, non è una ragazzina come le altre ma, come spiega il suo “padre scientifico” il dottor Ziegler, è stata creata a partire da DNA sintetico e non è stata progettata per provare alcun tipo di emozioni e sentimenti. Quando però uno psicologo la punzecchia e la aggredisce verbalmente durante il colloquio valutativo, Morgan risveglia il sistema nervoso ed emotivo sopito e da qual momento in poi inizia a mettere in atto una feroce vendetta che si concretizza in una lunga serie di omicidi e una lotta serrata con la stessa Lee Weaters che in realtà mostra doti insospettabili visto il suo aspetto. La storia del cinema è costellata di figli d’arte che cercano di ripercorrere, in qualsiasi veste, le orme dei padri con risultati a volte ottimi, se non superiori, e altre meno incoraggianti per non dire scadenti. A questa lunga lista si iscrive Luke Scott, figlio del ben più famoso Ridley, il quale, dopo una carriera per la verità non molto ricca con all’attivo appena un corto e un episodio dell’ormai datata serie televisiva “The Hunger”, decide di fare il suo esordio alla regia di un lungometraggio cimentandosi nel genere più caro al padre: la fantascienza. Il suo “Morgan” infatti, è un film di fantascienza che tuttavia si contamina con qualche sfumatura di horror e persino action in alcuni punti. Ciò che ne viene fuori, però, è un autentico minestrone, una pellicola molto pasticciata, dai ritmi lenti e soporiferi e poco avvincente non solo per gli appassionati del genere, ma anche per gli spettatori occasionali che di solito si accontentano di poco per divertirsi e gustarsi un po’ di spettacolo dozzinale. Le parole novità e voglia di osare non sembrano essere presenti all’interno del vocabolario di Scott il quale sceglie di solcare strade sicure e muoversi all’interno di quella lunga tradizione che, da “Frankenstein” in poi, vede come protagonista una creatura creata dal niente in laboratorio e che poi si ribella al proprio padrone seminando morte e distruzione. Il mostro in questione è una bambina il cui aspetto, va detto, è certamente inquietante grazie ad un cappuccio che lascia soltanto intravedere il male e la voglia di vendetta che covano dentro il suo sguardo di ghiaccio, proprio di chi non è in grado di provare emozioni. Il grande problema è che tutta la prima metà del film, giocata per intero sull’attesa che Morgan scateni l’inferno, più che diventare un accumulo di tensione e suspense, si rivela a conti fatti una stucchevole e inutile presentazione dei personaggi, degli ambienti interni (addirittura la cucina viene mostrata con cura) e spiegazioni di carattere scientifico poco chiare e superficiali. A questa prima metà piuttosto deludente fa poi da contraltare una seconda solo in parte dai ritmi più pimpanti grazie ad una vena horror presente soprattutto nella sequenza della conversazione fra Morgan e lo psicologo. In questa scena, infatti, il senso d’ansia trasmesso dai toni minacciosi dell’uomo e il fare aggressivo della bambina spaventa lo spettatore e lo rende partecipe della storia al punto fino alla conseguente aggressione che rappresenta forse uno dei momenti più riusciti del film di Scott. Rimane un fuoco di paglia, tuttavia, perché con il passare dei minuti il plot si appiattisce nuovamente, allineandosi su binari più vicini agli action movie, proponendo un ricettacolo di cose già viste e culminando in un finale telefonato e poco credibile. Tra le poche note liete possiamo comunque annoverare la scelta del cast, su tutti una Kate Mara bravissima nell’interpretare un personaggio sorprendente ed ambiguo, come quello di Lee Weathers, e quella Anya Taylor Joy, già vista in “The Witch”, che si conferma una giovanissima attrice di cui sentiremo molto parlare in futuro. Insomma, almeno per questa volta il detto “buon sangue non mente” non può essere applicato per 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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Reno

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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