Upgrade (2018)

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I have forced every person i know to watch this movie to shed as might light on it as it deserves. Give this one a watch you wont be disappointed, it has a venom sort of feel to it as well which I dig. Plus Logan Marshall-green as tom hardy look alike just adds icing to a cake

Tight directing, spectacular music, good acting, fluid plot what else could you ask from a movie? Well you get even more than that. I reraly give a 10 score to a movie and i have watched thousands. Please allow yourself to watch an incredible movie and propably one of the best in the recent years. Kudos to the guy who wrote and directed that gem.

In the near future, computer augmentations in humans are increasing. Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) is a mechanic and a luddite who is being left behind unlike his wife Asha who works for an innovative tech company. He refurbishes a car for tech tycoon Eron Keen who reveals a new computer chip to them. After an awkward meeting, their computer-driven car sends them to the wrong neighborhood where they are attacked by a team of masked assassins. Grey wakes up as a quadriplegic and a widow. Eron offers to install his AI chip STEM to reconnect his spine and getting him to walk again.This is a nice sci-fi thriller. Logan is doing his Tom Hardy best. He's an one-man show. The sci-fi ideas are solid. If there is one flaw, it's that Eron is obviously the man who set them up and Grey should have figured it out sooner. I like the revenge porn aspect. The fight action is kinetic. There is a very good reveal at the end. I didn't hear anything about this movie and am pleasantly surprised by it.

I am a fan of Leigh Whannell's movies, such as Saw and Insidious, so I had high expectations for this movie. After the movie ended I sat for some time trying to find a flaw in the script that would dismiss such a grim outcome as unrealistic. I couldn't find any. It is a pretty hard original science fiction. Stanley Kubrick level or a less spectacular, lower budget Christopher Nolan masterpiece. It does not continue the trend of the past century where beautiful/monstrous sparkling cans are taking over the world through brute force. It sets a new modern trend of the future where aging and obsolete information security is the only guard against the machines that need but an access key to take over the world. The world that they already operate, but don't own yet. In fact, it might have gone too much into technical details. Like The Matrix, but without a beautiful facade to connect to a non-tech-savvy audience, without Morpheus to explain it all in plain English. But I will not take any stars away for it being too tech-heavy. And if someone feels like it is, you better catch up and keep up, or we may find some of the predictions this movie makes come true.