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Transcendence

2014

Wally Pfister

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

5.2

16,505

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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Big ideas and a big budget work at cross-purposes sometimes."	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A sleek, smart techno-thriller loaded with interesting ideas - until it stops being any of those things."	NEU
United Kingdom	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."	POS
United States	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."	POS
United States	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)"	NEG
United States	Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"'Transcendence" looks and sounds like a Christopher Nolan film that got attacked by malware'"	NEG
United States	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"	NEG
United States	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)"	NEG
United States	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)"	NEG

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