Morgan
A corporate risk specialist enters an isolated biotech facility to evaluate Morgan, a rapidly maturing artificial being whose emotional intelligence makes the experiment impossible to classify as mere property.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Brutal
- tense
- eerie
- claustrophobic
- late night horror
- science fiction double feature
What critics said
Critics generally agreed that Morgan had a promising artificial-being premise and competent production design but settled for a familiar, underdeveloped science fiction thriller with more action than ideas.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
SynSect dispatches Lee Weathers to assess the risks of its L-9 project and manages Morgan as proprietary research.
The film foregrounds Morgan's emotional vulnerability and unusual development before reframing the investigation's moral assumptions.
Lee enters a rural site occupied by the L-9 team, with Morgan and the scientists effectively cut off from outside oversight.
Morgan is only five years old but has matured physically like a teenager, speaks, walks, and displays sophisticated emotional responses.
Films like Morgan, and why
Ex Machina
Shares an artificial-being premise, corporate experimentation, psychological suspense, and ethical questions about consciousness.
Splice
Shares genetic engineering, an isolated research setting, body horror, and the danger of creating an accelerated organism.
Uncanny
Shares an artificial intelligence mystery, technological unease, and a contained science fiction thriller structure.
Alien
Shares sleek science fiction horror, scientific hubris, and escalating violence surrounding a designed organism.
Movie Details
- Director
- Luke Scott
- Release Date
- 2016-09-01
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (1656)
Cast
- Kate Mara
- Anya Taylor-Joy
- Toby Jones
- Rose Leslie
- Boyd Holbrook
- Michelle Yeoh
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Paul Giamatti
- Michael Yare
- Chris Sullivan
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Morgan about?
- A corporate risk specialist enters an isolated biotech facility to evaluate Morgan, a rapidly maturing artificial being whose emotional intelligence makes the experiment impossible to classify as mere property.
- What is Morgan like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Morgan as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Morgan violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Morgan as brutal.
- What did critics think of Morgan?
- Critics generally agreed that Morgan had a promising artificial-being premise and competent production design but settled for a familiar, underdeveloped science fiction thriller with more action than ideas.
- Which films are like Morgan?
- Films with a similar feel include Ex Machina, Splice, Uncanny, and Alien.
- How long is Morgan?
- Morgan runs 92 minutes.
- Where can I watch Morgan?
- In United States, Morgan is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
