At the same time, his wife Asha (Melanie Vallejo) works at a cutting edge robotics company and talks to the AI’s running her house and car like real people. He spends his days fixing up old cars and selling them to eccentric billionaires, such as Harrison Gilbertson’s Eron, a baby faced shut-in with Zack Morris hair and a Jared Leto-from- Blade-Runner-2049 temperament. Sadly, the future has no room for a man like Grey. Grey’s clearly so devoted to the old way of doing things I’m half surprised there aren’t also stacks of Playboys lining the walls of his garage.
#Flick tech reviews upgrade#
Set in a near-future dominated by self-driving cars and smart homes, Upgrade opens on Grey (Logan Marshall-Green), a man’s man drinking his beer and tinkering under the hood of his muscle car while his Vinyl collection spins out old blues on a nearby record player. Written and directed by Saw and Insidious scribe Leigh Whannell, Upgrade blends together so many familiar elements into something refreshing and new, the type of kickass action sci-fi that appeals to the 14-year-old in all of us. Upgrade will at one point or another remind you of all those mentioned films and probably various others, yet never distractingly so. However, Baker really did mean it as a compliment, and he’s right. One you start piling on that many comparisons, it can very easily seem like you’re not so much praising a film as accusing it of being overly derivative. That’s how Florida Project director Sean Baker described Upgrade in his Letterboxd review.
“ 2001 meets Robocop meets The Crow meets Blade Runner meets Her meets Death Wish meets Minority Report.
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