Hearthly wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Watched a film. It was called Upgrade.
Here’s the pitch: Man gets microchip in his neck and then does violent murders.
It’s great.
(Summary: It doesn’t break any new ground; nonoutstandig acting, simply serviceable; the kooky IT wizard is shit; it’s a bit daft; the cinematography is quite good though; the violence is groovy; i think it’s filmed on digital camera so it looks a bit cheap; it nicely tips over 90 minutes run-time which is just right.)
I watched this tonight and whilst I think you're selling it rather short in some regards, it is basically a superb B movie experience with some splendidly over the top violence.
I didn't get the 'cheap' looking side of things at all, they obviously didn't have a mega-budget to chuck at it but I don't think anything looked out of place or cheaped out on either.
This film comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as some great revenge movie thrills with sci-fi overtones and sentient computers can be bad and stuff.
A solid 8/10 but a bit better than that so 830/1000.
(Give BAD DAY FOR THE CUT a go, Mr Satsuma.)
I watched this last night. I think you are being a bit generous and i'm fully snuggled up to Satsuma on this, with the proviso that it was merely good, not great.
Nothing new in it, very derivative, reasonably well done action scenes, some terrible acting, some ok acting. Tesco Value Tom Hardy was ok, Definitely Not Elon Musk was terrible. Gaping plot holes when you think about it. The film had a nice "feel" about it though.
706 baked beans.