Upgrade (DVD) [2018]

Let’s see it’s clever,brutal,a little funny, and a little sad,with some good acting in it too. But more importantly it’s cheap and the delivery is really fast that’s all that we really care about isn’t it 😈if you are a fan of terminator you will like this film it’s a clever take on the whole machines taking over theme

I thought this was a good movie. A human being infiltrated by a micro chip that talks to him. Scary stuff. What a way to be upgraded.

A near future set science fiction thriller movie. The director of this went on to make last year's version of the Invisible Man.In this near future, technology is changing things. As witnessed by the self driving cars you see. Grey Trace is a man who fixes old fashioned cars. He is very much in love with his wife, who works with more modern things. He does a job for a reclusive genius. Then his wife is murdered and he is left paralysed.Said reclusive genius offers him technology that gives him the chance to walk again, and get to find the killers. He embarks on a quest for the latter. But there's a lot of secrets he's going to uncover on the way...This is a really good debut movie for the writer director. Seeing it after Invisible Man, as I did, you can see why he got the chance to do something bigger. The look is really good. It never looks low budget. It looks convincingly near future. Some things are not too different. But others are.The leads are great. They really convince as a couple very much in love.It works on different levels as well. A straight crime thriller. A character led drama, about all the things Grey goes through. And it has many different ideas and themes that it tackles at the same time, all about technology and the human relationship with it.The plot twists and turns and keeps developing to the very end. There are good surprises. So it's not a film you can say too much about without spoilers. But it's all worth discovering for yourself.A very memorable watch. And well worth a look.The dvd goes into the menu when loaded with no trailers or ads.The language and subtitle options are:Languages: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish. English Audio description.Subtitles: English, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian.It does have one of those icon only menus, which can be messy to get around. But you get used to it.There are no extras at all.

Boy oh boy, when this film kicks in you will be surprised. I was not expecting it, I had to rewind certain sceans in the film because it was that good!Buy it, you will not be disappointed!

This film is directed by Leigh Whannell, who also directed or produced The Purge, Saw and Insidious . As the title of this review suggests the subject of the film conflates at least two and probably three tropes of cinema. Two are from science fiction, namely dystopian artificial intelligence and biomechanical augmentation of a human being; the other is the yuppie in peril/ the yuppie at the end of his tether.the cast consists of:Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace a car mechanic who is good at all things practical; his wife Asha played by Melanie Vellajo, who is a high powered business woman; Linda Cropper as his mom; Harrison Gilbertson as Elron a computer and biomechanical wizard, Betty Gabriel as Cortez as an investigating police officer; Simon Maden as the voice of Stem - a giant micro-chip! There are three biomechanical baddies, Fisk, Serk and Manny.What happens? Grey and Asha are an entirely unconvincing couple, seemingly an attraction of opposites, who sell an old fashioned luxury car to Elron, and when driving back in Asha's state of the art AI car decide to have sex instead of watching the road! The result is they end up in a bad part of town and are ambushed by the three baddies, who kill Asha and shoot Grey in the head completely paralysing him. He is completely reliant upon hospital staff and his mother and will spend the rest of his life as a quadriplegic, when Elron offers him the chance of mobility by inserting a microchip called Stem into his spinal chord. Unsurprisingly grey takes up the offer. As this is all leading edge and hush hush, Grey has to continue to appear to be paraplegic, even to his mother.In the meantime the investigating police officer Cortez makes very little progress with the investigation into Asha's murder. In fact policing in this future world seems pretty ineffective. Given the enhanced powers of perception and thinking provided by Stem however, Grey is able to identify the perpetrators, and in the process of doing this gradually shifts from investigating to revenge, but this is not entirely under his own volition - he is being guided by Stem, at first seemingly benevolently but gradually the viewer understands that Stem has other plans. Cortez hands over the entire police file to Grey - which makes me wonder if this future world has ever heard of data protection or confidentiality!The scenes where Stem/Grey eliminate the baddies are pretty violent, in part because the baddies like Grey are augmented - they are more than human. Gradually the viewer begins to see there is a power struggle going on - between Stem and his creator Elron and within Grey's body, between Stem and Grey. Towards the end it is apparent that there is a conflict between the human in Grey and the AI - a trope reminiscent of the battle between HAL and Bowman in 2001. The question is who will win, the human or the AI?The best parts of this film for me are the human - that is Grey's relationship with his mother, his inner struggle between justice and revenge. The unconvincing parts are his relationship with Asha and the relationship between Stem and Elron. Stem as a microchip without a body, whether human or artificial exercises powers and a manipulation of both humans and biomechanical beings which appears impossible. There is of course the question of how mechanical many of the humans are in the film, such as the nurses in the hospital or indeed Cortez herself. Having viewed the film twice this is a sub-plot I have not explored. I suspect the ending would allow for the possibility of a sequel.

The premise of a human being infused with artificial intelligence has been done before, but it is done in a very good way. The story is good with some plot twists, its futuristic aspects are good, and its action scenes are awesome and hilarious in turns. It's better than the Black Mirror show and surprisingly good for its relatively small budget.

How did this go under the radar?! It’s a borderline masterpiece! The acting, action, and gore is all top notch. A must watch for any who enjoy gore and sci/fi with a twist ending that I won’t spoil.

Upgrade, is a 2018 cyberpunk action body horror film written and directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. The film follows a man who is implanted with a chip that allows him to control his body after a mugging leaves him paralyzed. The film was produced by Jason Blum, under his Blumhouse Productions banner.This enjoyable B movie is well produced and brilliantly cast and totally enjoyable from the fine performance and special effects that show you don't need Millions to make film effects look A class, it's a good Friday night on the sofa every minute till the twist ending.

A surprisingly great movie. Highly recommend!

Horrible movie. Movie not in English, & the quality of the movie was so bad that you =could not see the movie clearly. I tried to change the language. That did not work. A waste of money.

Nach ein paar Minuten abgestellt. Schwachsinn.