Transcendence (2014)

Why so much hype?

Powerful

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

hyped garbage

It is likely the most wonderful movie I've ever seen.Both the scripts and the effects were amazing.

I don't exactly know why but I feel like the movie was kind of predictable, not in the scence that it was boring but in the scence that it felt like I'd already seen the same film a couple of times.Saying this movie had potential is an understatenebt, just by reading the synopsis I knew I'd love this film, but I didn't. Maybe they played it too safe and ended up with an Okey film, I mean there is nothing really bad about the movie, but it feels so average, specially after watching the trailer.

Enjoyed this, marking it up for originality in the day of reboots and part 5 franchise films. Not without its faults though as we follow Johnny Depp as an AI expert whose consciousness is transferred into a computer. As his awareness goes viral he becomes unstoppable, embedding every computer and electrical system on the planet.On the downside this dragged at times and all the characters felt a bit flat. Depp and his wife are meant to convey this great love, I never felt it. And with his radiation sickness/fatal poisoning he just sort of went with it, no real fear or anger. The bad guys also lacked motivation or it wasn't conveyed to the viewer, just that technology is well... bad. Actually a lot of this movie is vague.I'm also just realizing that I'm not even sure who the main character is supposed to be here. Depp is in the movie (in the flesh) for only about 15 minutes and then he disappears into the background of scenes as a computer program, making it hard to relate to him. His wife (Rebecca Hall) is so selfish, stupid and blunt that it's impossible to like her. It also isn't Paul Bettany, he's a prisoner through most of the film and when he's not, the events that are happening are more or less out of his control. Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy are just there, without anything noteworthy to add. As a whole I wouldn't say it was great movie.

Will, a brilliant mind in artificial intelligence, who invented the smartest computer known to man has only a couple of weeks to live after being shot with a poisoned bullet. His wife decides that the best thing she can do is to upload his conscience into such a computer. Miraculously, it works, but the new Will evolves too quick and requires more and more power. At the same time, a group of people try to develop a virus that can stop virtual Will's lust for knowledge before he becomes too powerful to be stopped.It's a brilliant idea which wasn't exploited to its fullest, as it had much more potential, rather than seeming superficial in some important aspects. I find it hard to believe that someone can create a colossal sum of money into one's account without the government or someone to realize this fraud and do something about it. I find it even harder to believe that this entity can rebuild a whole city with a huge laboratory underneath without somebody authorized asking any questions. His wife's attitude is also to be questioned as she does almost anything she can to support her "husband" without even thinking for a second what consequences her acts may have.Besides these, I have to say that it is mostly interesting, with unbelievable experiments and future science. It's impressive how an AI can evolve so fast and do such great acts in a relatively short time. Unfortunately, its simplistic finale is expected as the most of the plot and leaves a sense of superficiality which you cannot ignore. It starts very well but it isn't able to keep the good pace till the end, oscillating from interesting to boring like a sine. I am somewhat disappointed by it but that's life, you can't be right all the time.