Morgan
The Checklist for a bad movie
--Spoilers
Synopsis- A group of socially awkward scientist create a special that gets loose and kills. Done.
Problem Checklist-
1. The best of these types of films start off with a creature being nice and sweat from the start and then turns evil.
In the opening, you see Morgan stab a scientist in the eye. So, you already know there's no doubt that she's screwed up. Since when is snapping a dying deer's neck signs of pure evil.
2. Enter Kate Mara. The problem in itself. Rooney's much better.
3. She seems very stoic with a funny haircut. Sweepstake giveaway for the twist of the movie.
4. Enough with the hoodie look. After Killer Croc, that look is unbearable for anyone.
5. This movie needed more Paul Giamatti chewing.
6. What is wrong with this science team? There negligence towards properly handling Morgan is laughable. One minute they want to save her, while acknowledging that's she malfunctioned. Next minute they want to terminate, while realizing the same thing.
7. Kate Mara Vs Poor Man's Ex Machina- I believe both of these actresses did the all the fighting scenes without a double. If that is the case, they ruined it with the close up fighting.
8. Bullshit Twist-Kate Mara= Terminator
Solutions-
1. The fact that Morgan is the least interesting character in this movie shows the title needs a change.
Palms.
2. Weathers(Kate Mara) storyline just felt like a character thrown into the screenplay at the final draft, which is probably the only reason this screenplay made the Black List of Best Unproduced Screenplays in 2014. Needed a another rewrite to give this character a better flow. I understand you want her to be surrounded in mystery, but you need to give her some appetizer to make the main course all the more sweater. Anyway the twist to so obvious it needed no piecing together.
3. Drop the cotton hoodie.
4. The science team should've been the true villains of the movie. They at least felt like it. There fight to break Morgan was what kept my interest in the movie, unfortunately they disappointed me going the familiar route of the creature attacking it's creator avenue. Morgan's turn to full on evil mode came out of nowhere and never made since. I know she was being built as a weapon, but why bother giving her certain emotions that a weapon shouldn't have.
5. Only time Zoom In fights are good is when they are tactical. Knife or gun grappling. But when it's just a good ole slobberknocker, zoom out, please.
6.The twist was all wrong. You want a twist for this movie? Here. Weathers(Kate Mara), instead of actually being a humanoid herself, she should've really just been a well-trained, Jason Bournesque human. That would've really been saying something. A powerful being manufactured from a collection of brilliant minds, taken down by high endurance human operative, proving James Bond's point about no matter how advance the world gets in technology, there nothing more superior than a cold and calculating human as your go to trigger woman/man.
Final Evaluation: If you see a deer in pain, don't snap it's neck, because you will become the devil.
