Upgrade

2018

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 195 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 205104 205.1K

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Plot summary

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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July 21, 2023 at 08:49 PM

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Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace
Betty Gabriel as Cortez
Zia Kelly as Vessel Guard
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dave-mcclain 9 / 10

one of the best balanced and most entertaining movies of the first half of 2018

"Upgrade" (R, 1:35) is an action horror sci-fi comedy written and directed by Leigh Whannell, writer of the "Insidious" movies, the early "Saw" films, plus "Dead Silence", and director of "Insidious: Chapter 3". This movie was shot in Australia and Whannell and most of his cast are Australian. However, with the accents and the sets, you wouldn't know the movie wasn't American - and with the (lack of) quality in the last two "Insidious" movies, you wouldn't guess that Whannell was behind this gem of a film.

Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green, looking a lot like Tom Hardy) is an "old school" auto mechanic in a near future where intelligent, driverless cars are increasingly commonplace. He's married to Asha (Melanie Vallejo), an employee at a high-tech company. They live in a house that's suitably high-tech as well, operating with voice commands and equipped with a powerful computer embedded in a table top. They're very happy... until one night when they're on their way back from meeting one of Grey's clients, a reclusive computer genius named Eron Keen (Harrison Gilbertson). Their car crashes and they get mugged. Asha is killed and Grey is paralyzed from the neck down, with only his mother to care for him.

Eron visits Grey and offers him the opportunity to regain control of his body, with the help of a neck implant called Stem. The surgery succeeds spectacularly, Grey signs a non-disclosure agreement and heads home, promising that, at least for now, it appears to the world that he's still a quadriplegic. Grey quickly learns that Stem can talk to him (as voiced by Simon Maiden). Given the lack of progress by a police investigator named Cortez (Betty Gabriel), Grey takes advantage of Stem's Alexa-on-steroids capabilities to find the men who killed his wife. Normally not a violent man, Grey finds himself overmatched by these men, who themselves are technologically enhanced, until he learns how Stem can also help him fight. But, alas, avenging his wife's death isn't as satisfying as Grey might've expected.

"Upgrade" is a very appropriate title, given some of the writer-director's mediocre movies - and as a comparison to other films in the AI subgenre. This one is a combination of "Deadpool", "Ex Machina", "Transcendence" and the "Bourne" movies, but still feels fresh and creative, visually and narratively. The occasional comedy comes from the combination of Grey adjusting to having Stem's cells in his brain and some gallows humor as he pursues his wife's killers. The film also features one of the best recent casts you never heard of. The high-quality cinematography, editing, acting, pacing, directing and screenplay (with some late-game twists) makes this one of the most balanced and entertaining movies of 2018. "A"

Reviewed by spencergrande6 8 / 10

Cheap genre filmmaking done right

This film is basically "Robocop" meets "Death Wish", with less satire than the former and more humor than the latter. And it's a B movie blast. An unrelenting pace, fantastic fight choreography that doesn't skimp on the gleeful blood and gore, and never not fun or interesting to look at.

Yeah some of the one-liner dialogue as delivered by Logan Marshall-Green feels a bit forced and the plot isn't exactly clever or unique, but damn it, it all works and it makes it's own beautiful alchemy out of a bunch of borrowed parts. This is cheap genre filmmaking done right.

Reviewed by Prismark10 6 / 10

Greaser and chips

Upgrade sees writer and director Leigh Whannell moving away from horror to low budget futuristic sci fi action thriller.

Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) is an old fashioned car mechanic who has little to do with self navigating cars with AI. After he delivers a refurbished car to tech wizard Eron Keen, he is involved in a car accident where he is paralysed by a gang and his wife is killed.

Now paralysed for life, Keen offers Grey a chance to walk again by embedding an advanced chip fused to his spinal cord.

Not only can Grey walk, the chip communicates with him allowing Grey to track down the people who killed his wife. The chip has given Grey increased strength and speed.

This is a no frills entertaining B film. There is a lot of Ex-Machina in the underlying plot but it also as hints of Terminator, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Six Million Dollar Man and even John Wick as Grey is out for revenge.

It helps that Marshall-Green has more than a passing resemblance to Tom Hardy.

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