Film Enough plotholes to drop a planet into.
If you know anything about science, this movie will have you laughing or shuddering the whole way through. Everything about it varies between almost and entirely nonsense. There are so very many better ways it could have been done...it will leave you either shaking your head in horror, or mentally rifftracking the entire thing as you're watching it.
Even worse, the characters are bad. Anyone who knows anything about writing knows that people have reasons for why they do things. Why do the terrorists do things? Because they're fanatical. Okay, I guess we can work with that. Why does Will do things? To make Eve happy. Alright, that's a good enough reason, I guess. Why does EVE do things?
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She's supposed to be a fairly decent scientist. So why doesn't she just ask Will why he's doing things? Why doesn't she voice her opinion? She's supposed to love this man, didn't they ever have arguments? Didn't they ever critique each other? They're scientists, for pete's sake, there's supposed to be some sort of actual science going on here, not just people doing things and staring at each other wondering why nobody can read their mind.
Honestly? This movie is almost(though it's iffy) worse than twilight. It gets points for potential, but no points for actually achieving anything.
2/10
Film An insult to both science and sci-fi
I'm quite shocked by how people can make movies such as this and totally fail to achieve something even remotely reasonable. This movie takes one of the most interesting subjects of near-future sci-fi (brain uploading) and completely and utterly ruins it with a story badly written and even more badly played; it's so full of idiocy that it would need a weakly godlike AI just to analyze it. And I'm not only talking about scientific idiocy, I'm talking about completely stupid actions made by all of its characters, up to and including the main one, which SHOULD be thousands of times more intelligent than a standard human being. The only possible reason for the existence of this movie is, it has been created by an AI to convince mankind that AIs are stupid and pathetic even when they acquire godlike powers.
Film Masterpiece Magnifique!
I LOVED this movie. Transcendence is a story that really makes you think deeply about the implications and consequences of Brain Uploading. Not only was it well-written, it was very well paced too. The characters were also very well-casted, and their acting was amazing. In addition, not only were the characters believable, you could also understand their motivations. While others may jump on the bandwagon and criticize it unfairly, it's clear to me that Trancendence is a work of art. Truly, it's a masterpiece if I do say so myself!