Upgrade

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    Upgrade
    2018

    Synopsis

    A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

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    Cast

    • Logan Marshall-GreenGrey Trace
    • Betty GabrielDetective Cortez
    • Harrison GilbertsonEron Keen
    • Melanie VallejoAsha Trace
    • Benedict HardieFisk
    • Linda CropperPamela
    • Simon MaidenStem (voice)
    • Steve DanielsenJeff Handley
    • Richard CawthorneSerk
    • Christopher KirbyTolan

    Recommendations

    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      Whannell strikes out on his own with his first truly original concept as a writer-director...in a film whose production is as ambitious as its story is formulaic. Thankfully, the former mostly compensates for the latter, making Upgrade a genre-bending summer treat for those who don’t mind a little (okay, a lot) of blood with their popcorn.
    • 75

      Consequence

      Upgrade’s sheer energy and the strength of its concept do more than enough to elevate this revenge picture into something refreshing and eminently watchable.
    • 75

      Boston Globe

      Upgrade, Whannell’s second outing behind the camera, is yet another top-notch repair job, this time a kinetic sci-fi riff fashioned from scrap metal and human entrails, nervily updating Cronenbergian body horror for the iOS era.
    • 75

      The Seattle Times

      Upgrade is a brutish, efficient and well-executed slice of cyberpunk action horror with a silly streak.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      Upgrade offers memorable, legible fights, a compelling bombed-out retro-apocalyptic look and a mystery that seems obvious at the start but then keeps twisting.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Infusing its familiar dystopian sci-fi tropes with stylishly gonzo, low-budget filmmaking and inventive narrative flourishes, Upgrade proves far more entertaining than it has a right to be.
    • 63

      Slant Magazine

      Upgrade is most effective when mining the comical and bizarre love-hate chemistry between Grey and Stem and pairing that singular conflict with batshit-crazy action, but the film’s follow-through is clunky and unfulfilling.
    • 58

      IndieWire

      At the end of the day, it’s the action equivalent of a secondhand musical – you’ll most likely come for the dance scenes, and they’re good enough to wade through the filler.

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