Morgan [DVD] [2016]

This sci-fi horror film is slow at first. It seems that Morgan, the DNA synthetic may harbor aggressive tendencies. Add to it's ability to learn quickly via IA, makes her a formitable enemy. It's unclear at first if her tendencies can be controlled, but becomes evident soon that it cannot. The action picks up quickly at this point, with the development team terminated by her one by one. The ending has a final twist, otherwise the plot is quite predicatable.

It’s like watching Jurassic Park. People raise and guard a genetically designed creature until something goes wrong and it breaks out. A lot of time is spent differentiating the “it” from a teenage girl which I hope is not symbolic of something. End of the film has a Bourne Identity vibe. Not bad for a very contained action tale. Joy and Mara are a good match-up. Wish there was a little more of that.

I had never even heard of this movie when I came across it, but the 4K disc was on sale for only $10 so I couldn't resist buying it. The movie is fairly solid, and has a good performance by Kate Mara. Michelle Yeoh, Paul Giamatti, and Jennifer Jason Leigh are other well-known actors/acresses in the film. If you can find this disc on sale then I would recommend it.

Movie reminded me of Species which I also enjoyed. The twist was Morgan was created by scientists who did not anticipate the psychological issues of wanting to be free of a contained/controlled environment. In Species the alien wanted to be free in order to reproduce. Similar movies with different motives for the aliens.

The plot of this movie is similar to that of other current movies. Specifically, a girl is trained in the woods to be a killer by her father, who is running from some bad government agency. I don't know if the is the original or the copy. Either way, it's reasonably good and worth watching.