2014 · thriller · sci-fi · drama
Transcendence
Directed by Wally Pfister1h 59m2014
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Our read: Transcendence (2014) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal thriller · sci-fi · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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