Name : Ellen Brait / Alias : Globe and Mail
Even I, a self-prescribed horror movie skeptic, found myself wrapped up in Morgan - I was invested in the characters, I (mostly) bought into the plot and even found myself embracing some of the gore by the end.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Luke Scott is the son of Alien director Ridley Scott and shares with his dad a gift for staging scenarios in which institutional calm erupts into savage and exhilarating violence.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
The point of things quickly shifts from engaging the audience's interest and/or intellect to merely keeping it stimulated and guessing.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
It's not a terrible movie, but it is a lacklustre feature debut for director Luke Scott.

Name : Allen Salkin / Alias : New York Daily News
A lot makes me uneasy about where biology and technology are going. But Great Scott! Is "Morgan" really the best you can do?

Name : April Wolfe / Alias : Village Voice
Even if his film's plot is predictable, the younger Scott is returning the ensemble thriller to its roots with something far more important than an airtight story: compelling, well-drawn characters and the talented actors to play them.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Scott's low-key sci-fi thriller zips along with a sense of creeping dread-at least until it sputters to a third-act twist that anyone who's semiconscious will see coming down Broadway.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
A mediocre sci-fi/thriller about a human-looking A.I. teen who can't escape her factory-installed features.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
"Morgan" . is creepy, and sometimes pretty smart. And sometimes not.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
"Morgan" works as a reasonably effective sci-fi thriller - perhaps even more so if you've never seen a movie by Ridley Scott.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
Morgan is an unassuming little thriller, nicely put together and engaging enough while you're watching, though its memory is likely to vaporize hours, or even minutes, after you've seen it.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Nicely done, Mr. Scott, nicely done.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Anya Taylor-Joy . plays the title character with a mixture of vulnerability and detached humanity that makes her like the world's most frightening teenager.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Mr. Scott creates a disappointingly skeletal Frankenstein story that entertains efficiently but vacuously.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Scott's pacing, building an early foundation of uneasiness, starts to collapse as the script resorts to illogical actions in service of the plot.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
Instead of developing its themes, it uses them as grist for an overload of "commercial" action.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Thanks to Morgan, we know what bedtime stories Ridley Scott told his kids.

Name : Susan Wloszczyna / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Before the midway point, it is pretty obvious what the eventual outcome and supposed big reveal will be.

Name : Sheri Linden / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Until its letdown of a final stretch, Morgan is a gripping group portrait of menace and vulnerability, each punch to the solar plexus a burning question, timeless and of the moment.

Name : Sandy Cohen / Alias : Associated Press
The predictable twist hampers the story's suspense, and the film doesn't dip beyond the superficial.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
If only the questions it asks were more involving, and not just philosophical window dressing on what is ultimately a fembot-in-a-cage action flick - albeit one with a nice bit of torque.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
It's an attempt to wed philosophical science fiction concepts with bloody horror - a dubious endeavor that somehow works.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
It would be a stretch to call the movie any kind of feminist statement, but it does boast an equal-opportunity nastiness alongside its enjoyable stupidities.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
You may start to wonder when the last time an ensemble this good was placed in service of a script this thin.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Whatever its flaws, this is a rare genre movie that allows two women - both Mara and Taylor-Joy are coolly riveting, particularly when they're playing off each other - to take center stage in both the drama and the action.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Pared-down, efficient, and easy to follow, Morgan dispenses with the long, complicated pseudoscientific explanations that bog down so many sci-fi movies.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
This is one of the worst movies of 2016.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The film, directed by Luke Scott and laden with high-tech eye candy, should have been a lot more complex and psychologically interesting than it is.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Tribune News Service
Ambiguity makes "Blade Runner" a classic; a lack of ambiguity means "Morgan" strays into a run-of-the-mill genre territory, despite its deeper ideas.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
It's mostly when the younger Scott mines other influences and trends that his work falters, ultimately turning more predictable than he realizes.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A dull, listless, derivative chunk of celluloid lacking any spark or even basic storytelling ability.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
You could easily imagine these two in a sharper, edgier comedy. Maybe, if Hot Pursuit is a hit, the filmmakers can take a mulligan and reunite them for a faster, funnier sequel.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
If you've ever wondered what an Adam Sandler film starring Reese Witherspoon would look like, "Hot Pursuit" is it.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
It's actually, actively worse than you think it's going to be.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In a pairing of Witherspoon and Vergara, you might expect Vergara to be the funny one. But the script has Witherspoon playing for laughs, and Vergara acting as straight man. The balance is off.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Wall Street Journal
While she can make static cinema as well as anybody in the boys club - Hot Pursuit is solid evidence of that - Ms. Fletcher also monkeys with the conventions enough to make one wonder what kind of mischief she could ultimately commit.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
There isn't one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality .

Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
Witherspoon and Vergara are both experienced comedic actors with charisma to spare, and watching them pal around is a perfectly pleasant way to pass some time. But with material this uninspired, 87 minutes of riding shotgun is long enough.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
The blame lies with a dopey script, director Anne Fletcher and a lazy Hollywood assumption that female buddy flicks should be as half-assed as their male counterparts.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
There's hardly an area in which Hot Pursuit is not found lacking.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
For someone with a background in choreography, Fletcher has no idea of how to sell physical comedy. Characters stumble around and drop things but there's no grace to their clumsiness, no punchline at the end of their embarrassment.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Isn't this the sort of nitwit comedy Reese Witherspoon wasn't going to have to make anymore after becoming a producer on the likes of Wild and Gone Girl?

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Wastes the talents of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara as egregiously as one could possibly imagine, resorting to lame jokes, cliches and incompetent storytelling to pass the time.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
One of them is short and the other one is Colombian - that's pretty much all there is to this milquetoast buddy comedy that ought to have premiered directly on seat-back airplane televisions.

Name : Gary Thompson / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Short on laughs, even at 87 minutes.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Clearly, the idea here was to follow in the flatfootsteps of "The Heat": Funny ladies do funny cop-movie business. But with all the overacting and downright YELLING, comedy crumbles under the sonic assault.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
If there's any sexist cliche or sitcom groaner missed by the guilty parties behind this cop-and-robber coupling, it's not for want of trying.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara can't save this lazy, unfunny action-comedy.

Name : Kevin C. Johnson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The trailers for the Reese Witherspoon-Sofia Vergara comedy "Hot Pursuit" hint at a movie that's unfunny, insufferable and obvious. You can't say you weren't warned.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
The only thing hot about "Hot Pursuit" is its scant 87-minute running time. And it still feels like four hours.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The dueling accents are meant to be part of some mounting joke, in which each woman sounds like an idiot to the other. It's not funny. Neither is most of the movie, which throws these two at a wall of gags and hopes they stick.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
So bad you'd think it was directed by the worst sort of male chauvinist director.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
"Hot Pursuit" feels like a comedy that forgot its comedian.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Reese Witherspoon delivers a few minutes of superb physical humor in this otherwise worthless action comedy.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
We are in the midst of a comedy boom, and within it an explosion of feminist and woman-driven humor, but the news has apparently not reached Warner Bros. headquarters.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
It's ill-conceived, not funny, overbearing and not in any way worth watching.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
[Witherspoon] seems unafraid to cut loose, and she and Vergara make a terrific team.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
A laugh could die of loneliness in this shrill, slapstick buddy farce. The proven comic gifts of Witherspoon and Vergara have gone MIA.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A toothless and nearly laughless buddy comedy.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
I'm a sucker for outtakes during end credits, even - maybe especially - when they're attached to subpar comedies like this one. Everyone was having such a hilarious time! I wish I could say the same!

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's a chase film, it's a buddy film, it's a ridiculous, loud and often offensive romp. Witherspoon's character is cornball and annoyingly adrenalized - what was she thinking?

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
In the pro forma end-credit outtakes, we see the stars muff their lines, mug for the camera, and generally have a good time. It's nice that someone does.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
"Hot Pursuit" isn't something you should pursue. Ever.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
I am tempted to say it's another sorry example of what women have to do to keep an acting career going today, when all the juicy roles go to men. Unfortunately they have only themselves to blame. They are both listed in the credits as executive producers.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Hot Pursuit" features one of the worst and most forced performances of Reese Witherspoon's career, an irritating performance by Sofia Vergara(whom I love on 'Modern Family') and a seemingly endless parade of lazy and arbitrary plot twists and turns.