Movie review
September 1, 2016 · 92 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Morgan (2016) is a sci-fi horror thriller in which a corporate risk-management consultant evaluates a violent, fast-maturing synthetic human created in a secret lab and decides whether to terminate the project. The story follows classic bioethics and Frankenstein-style creation-gone-wrong tropes through corporate intrigue, scientist attachments, and escalating violence. No identity-driven themes, activist dialogue, political messaging, or representation emphasis appear in the narrative, casting, or marketing.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Morgan.
Woke representation / casting
Casting of female leads and supporting scientists naturally fits the bioengineering premise and thriller logic with no audience-visible forced diversity, identity signaling, or character mismatch.
Woke political dialogue
No explicit political, activist, or ideological dialogue is present in the story or character interactions.
Identity-driven story themes
Themes focus exclusively on bioethics, creation of life, emotion versus rationality, and corporate control with zero identity, racial, gender, or queer elements driving plot or messaging.
Western institutional / cultural critique
The narrative includes a corporate entity prioritizing profit and risk mitigation over ethical creation of life, presented as standard sci-fi thriller conflict without modern activist reframing of capitalism, institutions, or social norms.
Woke character or canon changes
Production
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No backlash exists claiming the title pushes woke, activist, identity-political, or left-wing messaging; searches across reviews and discourse yield zero such claims.
Creator track record context
No relevant prior work by the director, producers, or writer demonstrates patterns of activist, identity-driven, or social-justice projects.
