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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Surprised.. amazed and dazzled are some of the words come to your mind...It's been ages I am watching Sci-Fi flick and once a while you come across movie like Upgrade...It's upgraded thinking .. upgraded action and upgraded plot...The next gen of six-fi action and well excuted in a small budget.. The opening credentials gives you montage of a big budget movie and it keeps it that way till the end..Just watch it so they continue making such amazing movies.
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 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.
Heard nothing about and it wasn't expecting much but what a great watch.Fun, exciting, well balanced, some really great scenes... Well done!