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Transcendence

Play trailer 2:24 Poster for Transcendence PG-13 Released Apr 18, 2014 1h 59m Sci-Fi Action Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), the world's foremost authority on artificial intelligence, is conducting highly controversial experiments to create a sentient machine. When extremists try to kill the doctor, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed. Will's wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and best friend, Max (Paul Bettany), can only watch as his thirst for knowledge evolves to an omnipresent quest for power, and his loved ones soon realize that it may be impossible to stop him.
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In his directorial debut, ace cinematographer Wally Pfister remains a distinctive visual stylist, but Transcendence's thought-provoking themes exceed the movie's narrative grasp.

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Roxana Hadadi Punch Drunk Critics There's no surprise here; no nuance. And without any understanding of its subject matter or any interest in making others understand, either, Transcendence gives you very little reason to care. Rated: 2/5 Jan 9, 2017 Full Review David Sims The Atlantic Pfister and Paglen are going for emotional intimacy, but they forgot to add enough shading to their ensemble to land any kind of punch. Sep 22, 2016 Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire Pfister manages to put up one eye-catching image after another, yet never engages us for more than a moment. Jun 18, 2016 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies “Transcendence” looked good on paper but not in execution. Rated: 2/5 Aug 27, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Transcendence looks like a top-notch production, but nothing about it stands out in any way. Rated: 2/4 Aug 15, 2022 Full Review Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Asks some interesting questions but might have been more thought provoking if it was a better movie Rated: 2/5 Feb 1, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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D H An interesting premise executed extremely poorly. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/25 Full Review Blu B Well it's better than Lawnmower Man and doesn't look like a video game half the time. But it's so boring, lifeless, dull, and unispired direction wise. The music is boring, generic, and forgettable. Everything else isn't good here. The direction is super basic and this looks so dark and metallic grey. The real problem is how terribly it sets up the plot and characters at the start. It's done so poorly that it's almost incoherent with so much stuff happening and jumping it doesn't make sense. Than it becomes a generic A.I. controlling humans story. No one has any life to there performance. At best they just read lines and at worst are so dull. The ideas it presents are interesting and in the right hands could excel. But this never does it because the characters are setup porrly and are boring. Setting up and building the data farm is just boring to look at and so slow. The climax is just not much either. This really has nothing going for it besides it consistent with it's lifeless tone the entire way. It does get better in the middle when it focuses on Deep becoming the computer. The ending though feels like a cop out and doesn't really make that much sense if you think about it. Skip this. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review Mr. S Watched this movie with a friend, and honestly there are hundreds of negative reviews on here, most of the people here don't have brain cells, they don't stop for a minute and actually think about what they're watching, they need it to be in short form content, honestly the entire aspect of it being bad because it's either emotionless, has plot holes, or whatever else excuse they make up is baloney, the emotions were perfectly in place depending on the situations and context, the plot holes were apparent in some small areas and details, but it IS a science fiction at the end of the day so you can't expect it to be perfect, but most of the things in the movie could be answered if you gave it a single thought. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/03/25 Full Review Grzegorz M Shallow, boring, very poorly written story, weak action and no plot twists. One of worst films that i watched. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/02/25 Full Review Julian Rex M Content to settle for long pontifications about the nature of artificial intelligence and mankind instead of rendering convincing characters or anchoring drama, Transcendence fails to generate any intrigue, involvement, or subtlety that could make this narratively flat anachronism worth a backwards glance. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/07/25 Full Review Janos K terrible, for an AI this supposedly surpassed the entirety of human intelligence it is a fucking moron and how did the failures hack it? Max failed at his research and obviously it means nobody and nothing else can succeed. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), the world's foremost authority on artificial intelligence, is conducting highly controversial experiments to create a sentient machine. When extremists try to kill the doctor, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed. Will's wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and best friend, Max (Paul Bettany), can only watch as his thirst for knowledge evolves to an omnipresent quest for power, and his loved ones soon realize that it may be impossible to stop him.
Director
Wally Pfister
Producer
Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Kate Cohen, Marisa Polvino, Annie Marter, David Valdes, Aaron Ryder
Screenwriter
Jack Paglen
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Straight Up Films, DMG Entertainment, Alcon Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Sci-Fi Action and Violence|Brief Strong Language|Sensuality|Some Bloody Images)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 18, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 14, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$23.0M
Runtime
1h 59m
Sound Mix
Datasat, Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
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