Transcendence

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The film seemed amazing up until the last 20 minutes of it where logic just blew away and the worst possible ending appeared. So, let me summarize: a handful of terrorists who killed a lot of people wins against a peaceful superb being that tries to heal the world. And they don't just destroy it, they try to deceive it using the wife who in 1 second decided to betray her husband. The deception fails and the final terrorist girl just waves her gun into the air, points to another friend who has betrayed Will and just commands: "kill your f___ng self and your wife too, just so I won't shoot your friend". Why Will doesn't save his wife, while simulating death? Even better, why can't Will neutralize one small stupid terrorist girl? How is it he able to get over every other military unit, but not this one? Can't he use one of his minions to jump fast and furious? Can't he attack her from behind? Can't he, after all, just heal his friend? So, one stupid terrorist girl makes the world healing machine commit suicide and basically murder his own wife for whom he was doing this all and who betrayed him in no time and without any doubts. Terrorists win, planet loses. Basically this film is about that if you believe in something so hard that you will kill many people for it and just demand your enemies to kill themselves, you'll get what you want. It's about "go terrorists, go, if you think that you are doing good thing it's all good!" The worst possible ending ever.

My Thoughts: On the surface this film raises the usual questions of technology vs. humanity, but if you look deeper you will see that there is much more to this movie than meets the eye. Other more complex questions are raised, such as: What is self-awareness? What role do we as humans ultimately want technology to play in the bigger picture that is our future? How do we reconcile logic with emotion? Should we fear technology? Do we have a soul and if so, does that mean that when our bodies die we can still live on through other means? I really enjoyed this film and found myself thinking about the questions I posed above, as well as many others. Johnny Depp as Will is not an obvious choice but he brought a likability to the character. Evelyn's (Rebecca Hall) struggle with her husband's demise and "reincarnation" are palpable but I think the audience will sympathize with her unwavering devotion. Paul Bettany is the movie's conscience so his character is cautious, if not underutilized. All in all, I believe "Transcendence" to be a good film. Far from the usual car chases and predictable romantic comedies, this movie rises above and seeks to challenge audiences. My Recommendation: Depends on what kind of movie you're looking for. If you want mindless entertainment, this is not the film for you and skip it. If you're the type of person who likes to think about a movie long after the credits roll, definitely see it. Be sure to check out more reviews at www.shepfromtamp.com

Okay this movie is a comedy right? Okay I know that it's says here on IMDb that it is a drama, Mystery sci- Fi. But it must be a comedy, because the movie is totally laughable. The script is totally laughable or worse it's a kind of "The lawnmower man" from 1992 remake.Which was also laughable, but you can forgive "The lawnmower man" for being a bad movie, but this one you can't This movie is just like if someone gave a scientist 20 millions dollars so he could invent a technology that could turn cheese back too milk again. A total waste of money. I sincerely hope that Mr Depp and Mr. Freeman has donated most off their money that they earned from this, to doctors without borders or a children cancer foundation. I once saw an interview with Mr. Deep saying that he never goes to any premiere, now I know why!

The creators of this movie had an agenda. A "We're afraid of technology so let's kill it no matter the cost!" agenda. So let's make a movie about it! Oh, and let's spend a lot of money and hire a lot of known faces to spread this agenda. And the loopholes in the script... wow, those loopholes... Did J.Depp and M.Freeman even read the script before starting production!?!? Seeing this movie only causes people to resent building an AI. To resent progress, to resent what the human species has been doing for the past 200k yeasts or so: evolving. There is NOTHING wrong in the actions of the AI in this movie. Only those of the humans trying to stop it, eventually causing the humanity's own demise.

The wrong slant has been put on this fascinating and provocative film. It is not the usual cliché about the dangers of technology going too far, but rather it is about the dangers of fear and suspicion that can destroy miraculously innovative ideas. We at first are led to appreciate the wonder of being able to make the world a better place through the latest research on AI. We see how powerful it can be for good -- healing the sick and restoring the planet and even preserving consciousness. The "victors" in this film are a group who from the beginning are advocating that people throw away their computers and who early in the film actually blow up research labs across the nation. But then, surprisingly, we are led by several trusted main characters to become fearful. It's more than we can trust to transfer an entire human brain (even one with benevolent intentions) to a computer and let it continue to create. The interesting part is that by the very end, we realize that the real tragedy of the film is the victory of the fear-mongering destroyers. Computers are used only as door-stops. There is an intriguing ray of hope about a protected garden that may not have been destroyed.... Whatever your ideas about technology, this intelligent film will stimulate a great discussion with friends!

"A first-year high school student with a major interest in computer science and technology was asked by his English teacher, (along with all his other classmates), to write a short story of their own choosing, as an introductory stage in order to be assessed on their general language skills for the class. The pupil in question accidentally watched 'The Lawnmower Man' for the first time only days before, and thought it was so great and practically unheard of within his generation, he decided to base his "original" assignment story upon this film, which of course had very little relevance itself to the original Stephen King brief work of literature. Once the project was submitted for evaluation, the teacher, who stubbornly owned a Nokia 3310, a 14" portable TV, and grew up in a generation of scraped knees and weekend World War II re-enactments, thought to himself that it was a reasonably clever concept, but only gave the student a C+, in order to discourage him that the story was of any greatness. However, the teacher had other devious plans, and decided to just correct any minor spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, then submit the story to Hollywood in the hope of making a fast buck. The story was eventually accepted, the teacher was given a princely sum of coinage, bought himself a Nokia 5510 and 21" Pensonic, and during the four years in which this full process took to make it onto the big screen, the student had since forgotten all about his crap re-telling of a crap re-telling, and was now happily playing bass in a garage band, and pursuing girls who looked old enough to buy him alcohol. He had also recently watched 'The Lawnmower Man' again and wondered to himself what the hell he was thinking when he thought it was any good in the first place, and then lit another herbal doob." This, in my opinion, is how this film came to see the light of day. It's honestly the worst thing I've subjected myself to since 'After Earth'. The story, script, dialogue, delivery, and acting are all completely abysmal. Not one single character was likable or even rational, just like kids are when going through puberty. I don't care who's in it, it's absolute shite to the power of twelvty. Even the special effects weren't up to much, and it looked like the majority could have been done using Adobe After Effects CS4 plug-ins. Now all I have to worry about now, is for someone stealing my review story of how this film came about, and then making that into yet another sketchy movie for the masses. Seriously though, I weep for the future if this is the kinda crud we have to look forward to in later years. I need to go and watch 'Maximum Overdrive' now for a gradual and regressive mental flushing. Like many films of this era, it tries to be clever, but fails miserably. In a word, "Atrocious".

Not only did everything happen way too fast, it didn't make much sense either. As it was told to us near the end, he WAS the (more or less) same person as before death, doing everything not because of his own desires, but because of the woman he love(s/d). What she wanted was explained and he did exactly that. Being able to heal the planet, being able to cure diseases and injuries, enhance and watch over literally everything, just why in the name of pickles did he decided to throw everything away? His processing capabilities were supposed to be beyond comprehension, and the best thing he could come up with was basically sending the world back to the stone age? And people were actually lining up behind this idea? Let's see: No communications, no worth of money, no medication, no order, no disaster recovery, it's the end of economy so what comes are spreading sicknesses, starvation, maybe a few wars here and there just to spice it up a little... It'd be pure chaos and anarchy, nothing more. So against the wishes (heal the planet, help people) of the most important person to him, against his own...desire to keep her alive, he was like "ah, screw it". That the blondie would've shot the other guy (my apologies, I'm not good with names) is yet again irrelevant, with the power at his fingertips he would've been able to resurrect him as well. But killing off his love, himself and probably billions more is sure a better idea. And please don't think of "people fear what they don't know" or "they were scared it would take over the world" bull****, because with just an ounce of intelligence they'd have realized that the upcoming suffering and deaths of this new "dark age" and more suffering and deaths in this still imperfect world is no better option than the worst case scenario: the hive mind and loss of individuality, order, prosperity and evolution (because where would we evolve from perfection?). Again, that was the worst case scenario, which was not at all the case. Personally I find it difficult to understand his everything but logical decisions, to put it lightly. For me this movie was simply horrible, an awful experience. P.S.: I do not exactly care about the actors, the acting (was decent), the serenity, the animations or anything else...at all. What makes a movie are the story and the characters, nothing else. Amd they were comically bad.