Upgrade
6/10
There
will be spoilers. I finally got around to seeing Upgrade. When I
first saw the trailer I thought it looked awesome and had a cool
premise. I also thought the main actor was Tom Hardy because, damn
it, he looks like Tom Hardy. Then that Venom trailer came out and I
laughed because it looked like Upgrade. I liked this a lot because I
like revenge movies and I like violent movies and this is a very
revenge based action movie. This guy Grey Trace is a mechanic that is
not a huge fan of technology. His wife Asha works for a company that
helps with augmenting humans with technology. One day they go to
return a car Grey was working on and it turns out to be the home of
this weird ass smart dude named Eron that is working on some
technology called STEM.
One
the way home while trying to bone down in a self driving car the car
decides “Fuck you I do what I want!” and they wreck. Some guys
show up and shot the wife and fuck Grey up who has to watch her die.
He ends up not being able to move from the neck down. He has a chair
and help in the form of his mother, nurses, and robot arms in the
house. One day at the hospital Eron shows up and offers him to have
the STEM implanted but he has to keep quiet about it. Grey eventually
accepts and freaks the fuck out when it starts talking to him. Eron
is surprised by this. STEM is smart as fuck and can protect Grey as
long as he gives him permission to do so. Which he does.
Grey
starts hunting down the guys associated with his wife's death and
murders them in the most violent of fashions. No need to worry about
leaving fingerprints because STEM is like “I kept track of
everything you touched.” Meanwhile a cop that is investigating the
case starts to suspect Grey but he's like “I cant walk so...kick
rocks.” Grey gets cocky and flagrant as fuck with his attacks and
such and the cop knows he is somehow doing this. STEM gets shut down
by Eron and Grey has to head to a hacker that STEM found and get
booted back up.
This
movie has a dark ass ending which, honestly, it couldn't have ended
any other way. I like that they do not say what year this takes place
in. The way it ends makes it so there could possibly be a sequel but
I wouldn't want to see it. I like the way this one went. The sequel
would either be a copy of this movie or some stupid battle between
humans and AI with other soldiers or something with implants. There
are some guys Grey fights that have implants and you can see that
past a certain point shit gets absurd.
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