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Transcendence

2014

Wally Pfister

Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara ...

5.2

16,517

Sci-Fi. Mystery. Action. Drama Trying to stop reaching their goal of Technological Singularity, which will lead to create a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain, a member of a radical anti-technology organization shoots a famous computer scientist. Being terminally ill, other scientists download his body into a computer. This grants him power beyond his wildest dreams, and soon he becomes unstoppable... Debut film of known ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Big ideas and a big budget work at cross-purposes sometimes."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A sleek, smart techno-thriller loaded with interesting ideas - until it stops being any of those things."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"For all its chilly, overdone paranoia about the dangers of unchecked technological advancement, 'Transcendence' works better as a subtly mournful love story."
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A dark, lurchingly entertaining pastiche of age-old worries, future-shock jolts, hot-button topics and old-fashioned genre thrills."
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"After an intriguing start, 'Transcendence' (...) offers roughly the same level of excitement as listening to hold music during a call to tech support. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"'Transcendence" looks and sounds like a Christopher Nolan film that got attacked by malware'"
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"The script by first-time screenwriter Jack Paglen is so full of half-explained cyber-nonsense and wheezy, kneejerk man-vs.-technology clichés, it borders on the ludicrous"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"All I can cull is: don't mess with Mother Nature and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Fortune-cookie stuff. Erase All. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"The story soon devolves into a far-fetched, futuristic snooze-fest that often defies its own logic. Characters' motivations are rarely clear, and allegiances shift with no explanation. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"

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