Upgrade
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Upgrade (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Upgrade
What watching it is actually like.
“You want tight cyber-revenge pulp that snaps into paranoid body horror.”
Skip it tonight — Violent augmentation and a nasty final turn will stick too long.
The reading.
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