Film Review – Morgan

Last year, director Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” studied the idea of artificial intelligence reaching the stage of human emotions, with a robot struggling to experience life as a facsimile of flesh and bone. “Morgan” essentially attempts the same story, but instead replicating Garland’s careful assembly of mood and tension, it offers the helming debut of Luke Scott, and he’s not interested in asking provocative questions. A blunt B-movie hidden under the guise of thought-provoking science, “Morgan” is more of a horror endeavor than a dramatic one, emphasizing blood and violence with style and a cast made up of actors way out of their league. It’s a tremendously goofy picture, but one delivered without hesitation. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com