'Morgan' Review: Limp and Lackluster 'Ex Machina' Clone Needs More Brain Power

No one in Luke Scott's "Morgan" acts like a human, which is fine enough for some of his characters -- after all, this is a film about a genetically engineered being run totally amok -- but becomes slightly more problematic once the film attempts to dig deeply into themes relating to human emotion, human behavior, human fallibility…the list goes on and on. "Morgan," for all its ambitious sci-fi trappings, is really a film about how being human is hard and messy and weird, a message that's difficult to deliver by way of wooden lines, worse delivery and a series of cheap, gotcha! "twists" that do its audience no favors. Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) is something of a fixer -- a "risk management consultant" for a shady corporation who seems to only be dispatched when things have already gone way past risky (mention is made throughout the film of some sort of incident that happened in Helsinski, one of the few genuinely tantalizing tidbits to make its way into the final film). Her latest job seems to be just the kind she likes: a hard one that hinges on her staying stone-faced, opaque and exceedingly rigid.