Upgrade (2018)

Directed by

Leigh Whannell

Genre

action film, cyberpunk, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, dystopian film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 5,078 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man becomes paralyzed after a mugging. He gets an experimental chip implant that lets him control his own body, and he uses it to hunt down the people who attacked him.

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What happens

Upgrade is a 2018 cyberpunk action thriller film written and directed by Leigh Whannell, and starring Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. Upgrade follows a technophobe who is implanted with a chip that allows him to control his body after a mugging left him paralyzed. The film was produced by Jason Blum, under his Blumhouse Productions banner. After premiering on 10 March 2018 at South by Southwest, Upgrade was released on 1 June 2018 in the United States by OTL Releasing and Blumhouse Tilt, and on 14 June in Australia. The film made $17 million on a $3 million budget and received positive reviews from critics, who called it "one part The Six Million Dollar Man, one part Death Wish revenge fantasy", and praised its dark humor and action sequences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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