Upgrade (2018)

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've never written a review but this movie warrants one. This movie is pretty amazing. Objectively it does have a few issues such as Stem deciding not to tell Grey about the off switch plot device in advance and not explaining how Stem was able to control Eron but subjectively I just loved this movie to death. The movie (much like its protagonist) is an old fashioned action film that was upgraded with some high-tech innards. The performances are all pretty great and they really did the best they could with the material they were given. Now onto the meat and potatoes of the movie; the action sequences in this movie are so well choreographed and the cinematography during these scenes is fantastic and they really wouldn't be the same if they had not been filmed the same way so major props to the filmmakers. Finally onto the plot; the movie's plot is actually really well done, I felt invested in Grey and some parts actually made me feel a little bit which is something most action movies really dont do. The twist at the end is also pretty great even though the reasoning behind the twist isnt really explained I'm willing to just gloss over that because the ending is just so good, it's very reminiscent of Black Mirror, especially the White Christmas episode. Overall freaking fantastic movie 10/10 I'm going to watch it again.

I can't understand why some people have been so negative. My sister and I settled down with no expectations and loved it, especially playing guess who did what. It's a clever ideas sci-fi flick, and not a million miles away from where we seem to be heading. And so good not to see the same Hollywood actors again.

Have watched around 5 times, love the movie only thing that held this movie back was the lack of investment of funds on behalf of the investors and producers. it seems like they were hesitant to move all the way with this movie and invest big, and take the risk, cause if they had i think we may have had another terminator 2 or mad max fury road on or hands. the movie was short but beautiful all the same hats off to all involved they really did a fantastic job. but damn every time i watch this movie i get a sense of peace in my soul lol, stem is just so brutal and efficient its beautiful. but at the end of the day i am left a bit said because i know blumhouse had a potential masterpiece on its hands, the gore was lovely, as an ex mma-fighter the fight scenes were brilliant in that stem dispatched opponents in a truly computer like fashion bravo blumhouse i hope you capitalize on this theme cause it is one of the coolest themes in the movie industry, computers enhancing humans to super soldiers loved it good luck.