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richardba

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Name of the movie you are reviewing: Upgrade



Starring Tom Hardy's doppelganger Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace, Upgrade is a body horror science fiction movie directed and written by Leigh Whannell. The film depicts a near futuristic world where body augments and smart houses are already present, where Trace a technophobe turned paraplegic goes into frenzy revenge against the perpetrators of his late wife's murder.

Review:
Upgrade is a cyberpunk action movie, with embedded body horror. Short things short, Grey Trace's wife, Asha Trace, used to work for a tech company which constructed smart cars and houses, but got itself into body augmentation. Both of them are involved into an car accident caused by Asha's malfunctioning self-driving car, they are ambushed by a couple of men, resulting in Asha being killed and Grey being shot in the neck, causing him to become tetraplegic.

Grey is a technophobe, a person who dislikes technology, he prefers manual cars and to deal with things with his own hands. Grey is offered a "second chance" by having an implant on his neck with a chip which allows him to regain control over his body, or so we thought. It turns out that this movie is telling us the story of Terminator's Skynet being implemented into a chip and being inserted into a human.

The movie is fluid and full of ideas, for example STEM, both the chip and the self-aware AI entity, that chooses a host which hates technology, because people who disdain something are easily overcome by their fears. Or when it fully gains control of Grey by manipulating him. The movie has also a vibe from The Wachowskis, both the design and the plot wise speaking. The fighting scenes for example are something pulled straight out of The Matrix, without the slow-mo effect.

Would you recommend this to other users? I do recommend this movie, it is a clear satire of the times we live in, albeit at less extant. The movie is also both terrifying and fascinating, it shows us what we should expect into the near future. It also shows us a good discussion regarding technology and its ethics, the movie seems to be an open debate between the audience and its director. Whanell seriously opens a social debate while showing us the entertainment.

Rating(1-5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
 
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