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#SilverScreenBlack: 'Upgrade' (2018)

(100 mins)

Mario's rating: 4.5/5 (permissions granted)

Robo-'Memento': Tight, tense, tragic, and terrific, a quadriplegic is given the chance to stand, and with each step he avenges, whether he means to or not.

High tide: The electrifying, balletic 'robotic' fights; the film's futuristic world (from tablet coffee tables to bio-guns via pet clouds) on a $3m budget; the buddy-cop chemistry between the protagonist and STEM, his A.I. implant; and the film's ending...

Low tide: There's no sequel yet.

Best scene: Pick a fight, any fight.

Best quote 🥇:
STEM (on drinking alcohol): "It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction."
GREY: "Yeah, that's because your memories are filled with ones and zeros, pal, and our memories are filled with every mess up we've ever made."

- Best depressing quote 🙁:
GREY: "I'm not looking to restore my life. I'm looking for the off switch."

- Best ninja quote:
GREY (to his attacker): "See, you thought I was invalid, but you didn't know that I'm a freaking ninja."
STEM (to GREY): "While I am state of the art, I am not a ninja."