By Robert Scucci
| Updated 1 hour ago

Personally, I’m not a big fan to describe a film like a cross between two other titles, but sometimes the best way to prick the interest of someone is to compare it to something he knew. While 2018 Upgrade Is held to himself as an action film Cyberpunk which deserves to be watched, I told my friends that he has thematic elements similar to The crow And Robocop In the sense that a man seeks to take revenge on the death of his wife, but his body is improved by cybernetics which helps him do the work after being left in a wheelchair due to a spine injury . Although it is indeed an appropriate comparison, UpgradeLike the implant STEM which takes up the state of being of its protagonist, takes on its own life and successfully makes its own thing despite its influences.

A shipwrecked body started to take revenge

Upgrade takes place in the not so distant future, where technology has been used to all its extent for modern convenience, to the chagrin of Gray Trace (Logan Marshall-Green), a car mechanic who likes to work with his hands. Spending his days working on cars, Gray lives with his wife, Asha (Melanie Vallejo), who embraces all the technologies that the year 2046 has to offer, from his smart apartment to his autonomous car. Despite their confronted personalities, Gray and Asha have a romantic relationship, who ends up suddenly when they are ambushed, Asha is murdered and Gray finds himself with an injury that changes his life after a ball struck his spinal cord.

Frustrated by the current investigation surrounding the death of his wife, Gray has doubts that the woman in charge of the case, the detective Cortez (Betty Gabriel), will bring to court the murders of Asha. Boue-Fauteuil, and a shell of his old self, everything changes for Gray when he receives a telephone call from one of his customers, Eron (Harrison Gilbertson), a leader in technological space that has a new development, a Micropuce known as STEM. Accepting to transplant the experimental microplant in its spinal cord, Gray obtains the upgrade he needs to recover his physical faculties.

But there is a catch

Fully able to walk again as if he had never had his accident in the first place, Gray must keep his hold to modernize a secret, because Eron forced him to sign a non-disclosure agreement. In other words, Gray must maintain public appearances as a quadriplegic despite the fact that his physical body was taken over by Stem, which allows him to walk freely, to use his hands and to live a life without help. By investigating the murder of Asha on his own hands, Gray is surprised to discover that Stem has a voice, which turns out to be very useful to find and kill his attackers.

In addition, Gray upgrade makes him a very effective killing machine and Stem even talks about the steps necessary to cover his traces when things become messy.

At first, he managed to hide his improved abilities from his mother and goalkeeper, Pamela (Linda Cropper), Gray is not so lucky when it comes to suspicions of detective Cortez, because she saw her wheelchair at various scenes of crime that would imply him in the revenge of revenge he implements. As the stem slowly takes gray control, which does not necessarily approve of the micropuce methods, Upgrade becomes a trendy cat and mouse game while Eron tries to deactivate the chip because Gray violated his confidentiality agreement, and the detective Cortez tries to abandon Gray for having taken matters into hand.

Streaming update on Netflix

Upgrade is an incredibly fun action film thanks to Logan The performance of Marshall-Green as Gray, a man who has arguments in progress with the computer that takes control of his body. Living a double life that ends up catching up with him, Gray’s manners and conversations with the voice inside his head that only he can hear made fairly hilarious moments in a film that plays him differently. Some of the best moments of Upgrade Involve Gray wanting to manage a situation himself, find himself compromised and ask Stem to take over so that his body can unleash that he could not execute otherwise, only to return to reality realizing what he had done .

While Upgrade can be considered inspired by films like The crow And RobocopHe is alone as an action film Cyberpunk Badass on technology, the desire for revenge, and how these two things go hand in hand if you are ready to suspend the disbelief to watch a ton of body hit the ground in style.

To date, you can broadcast Upgrade on Netflix.