Review of Transcendence (2014) by Paul M — 05 Jul 2015

I disagree with the majority of critics that see the failure of the film as a failure pacing, bad acting, bad direction, or a lack of punching up the pace. Director Wally Pfister has taken the balance of the blows on all these counts.

Yet for a film that deals with perhaps the most important issue of our time besides global warming - most of the critics betray their own ambivalence to the internet, virtual reality, and Nano technology.

And that is the problem with the film. It begins to develop the theme that is more than a Wire sidebar, that recent advances in technology are perhaps Frankenstein in nature, out of control, and our destroying, not transcending our original nature.

Few films have really tackled this head on. But here we are with this them and now all of a sudden near the end, the solution becomes taking down the internets is a disaster as a film yet for a very sp.

So we start with a critique and now all of a sudden we are faced with a romantic attachment to the very thing that would eliminate the evil that the film protests. It gets worse. The end of the journey is a bait and switch to a pro technological position.

We become witness to beautiful scenes of the redemption of technology in solving the painful aspects of the human condition. Will (Johnny Depp) l of a sudden becomes the savior, not the devil. Having gone to far, the director, Walter Pfister and script writer, Jack Paglen decide to pull back and restore the current promise of technology and moreover present it has having the redeeming value of a Savior - Redemption.