The irony about Transcendence is
that it’s all about artificial intelligence but it lacks even the most natural
of intelligence completely. Though it starts with a big promise of strong
things to come it falls weak and on its knees so fast that once it’s done you
realize that Depp has taken you on a joy ride. I cannot exactly say if it’s an
entire waste of 120 minutes of your life but it sure does not add any more
value to it. Transcendence looks like the big budget disaster of 2014 so far
which the crown held by After Earth last year. For some it’s would be ok to
argue that the movie was too complicated and it’s only for the thinkers but in
my point of view thinking too much about this would only makes you feel sorry
for doing it.
When Will Caster (Johnny Depp)
who is a renowned scientist in artificial intelligence dies his wife uploads
his consciousness to a program expecting that his great knowledge can be
harvested for future. As expected Wills consciousness perform brilliantly but
evolves in to a greater power and a threat than being an asset. And when he
breaks the barriers of nano technology he starts to play god.
The plot clearly has lot of
potential. But it’s not something groundbreaking or never heard of before. Therefore
Transcendence is already decades late but tries hard to be futuristic. But
still it could have being save it if didn’t have some obvious mistakes. There
are so many plot holes that make it completely unjustifiable and qualify to be
an effective science fiction or a drama. If wish to continue to the end you
have to completely withdraw yourself from them and go along. But it’s something
not very easy to do. I don’t want to give out any spoilers but keeping the AI
part and the nano part aside as they are fictional the stuff that actually
happens right now are depicted in a complete bogus manner here. How the story
flows and the events taken place is far from its narrative and you can’t really
forgive it.
Seems like the cast is a way to
salvage it but to be honest nor Depp or Morgan has a strong part to perform so
their appearance is a waste. The fans of both will only end up disappointed.
And there are some poor looking action scenes that pop up time to time and even
that make little sense. The CG is not brilliant and cinematography is mundane.
But the hope of the big cast and the plot I somehow went through the whole
movie.
Genre: Science Fiction | Drama
Director: Wally Pfister
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