Storyline
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
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Cast
Christopher Kirby, Logan Marshall-Green, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardie, Richard Anastasios, Betty Gabriel, Michael M. Foster, Sachin Joab, Clayton Jacobson, Douglas Embry, Melanie Vallejo, Simon Maiden, Linda Cropper, Steve Danielsen, Richard Cawthorne, Renah Gallagher, Rosco Campbell, Liam Howarth
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Reviews
75
Whannell strikes out on his own with his first truly original concept as a writer-director...in a film whose production is as ambitious as its story is formulaic. Thankfully, the former mostly compensates for the latter, making Upgrade a genre-bending summer treat for those who don’t mind a little (okay, a lot) of blood with their popcorn.
75
Upgrade’s sheer energy and the strength of its concept do more than enough to elevate this revenge picture into something refreshing and eminently watchable.
75
Upgrade, Whannell’s second outing behind the camera, is yet another top-notch repair job, this time a kinetic sci-fi riff fashioned from scrap metal and human entrails, nervily updating Cronenbergian body horror for the iOS era.
75
Upgrade is a brutish, efficient and well-executed slice of cyberpunk action horror with a silly streak.
70
Village Voice
Upgrade offers memorable, legible fights, a compelling bombed-out retro-apocalyptic look and a mystery that seems obvious at the start but then keeps twisting.
