The new film by the screenwriter and director of the "Chainsaw" series adds a hard core of sci-fi action with horror elements and takes a cyberpunk style. The background is the future world of mechanized transformation of human beings, and the protagonist is inserted into the chip and then "upgraded" into a biochemical human story. There are many works on artificial intelligence. Robots and bionics are not new settings, and it is not very common for chips to be placed in the human body. The film has a high degree of completion, although there are inevitable bugs. At the beginning of the film, the contrast between the male protagonist and the background era is shown. At the beginning of a sci-fi film, the scene of the male protagonist Grey repairing a car was shown, but Grey's wife Asha immediately introduced the real face of the era: driverless cars, family AI housekeepers, 3D printing. Grey, who is keen on DIY, is out of tune with the times, in stark contrast to the plot controlled by chips later. Following an accident, his wife was killed, and Grey's spine was fractured and paralyzed. He had to accept the advice of scientific capitalist Eron and implanted the artificial intelligence chip STEM, which was omnipotent. In order to avenge his wife, Grey's guide in STEM takes the next step closer to the truth. This process is very ingenious. From being frightened by the independent consciousness of STEM, to turning to STEM for help with the temptation of revenge, to empowering STEM to control the body in an emergency, Grey can be said to be gradually conquered by STEM in a loop. In fact, there are too many episodes that imply that Eron is the mastermind behind the scenes, and the voice of STEM also conceals the crazy factor in the cold mechanical sound, and it is still slightly unreasonable to finally reveal the true face of STEM. No matter how high-IQ AI is, it is eager to be a human with emotional instability and physical limitations. This setting is too human narcissistic perspective. But as Eron said, no matter how smart a machine is, there are things that can't be done. Probably this is the reason why STEM wants to have a human body, especially a human body that can't be mechanically deep. The overall storytelling is straightforward, and the horror and bloody scenes are not sloppy. The fighting action design restores the mechanical feeling, stiff and direct, and the use of the camera will capture the movement changes, the whole design is very cool. There are two very good scenes. One is the three consecutive 360-degree tumbling shots after the police arrival after the accident of Grey and Asha. The rendering is very desperate; the second is the clip after Grey has just been placed in STEM, and the picture is very game-like. It feels as if the audience is in real-time STEM, moving forward with the mouse operator Grey in front of the computer screen. Generally speaking, it is a sci-fi action movie with exquisite settings, complete story and wonderful lens design. The only regret is that the layout is slightly smaller due to cost constraints. Several mechanical modifications of the set Nice people, barrel bullets in arms, eyes with vision machines and thermal scanners, etc. However, group portraits are scarce, the worldview is incomplete, and individual mechanical settings are slightly popular, which is a pity. The actors are very good, and Logan Marshall who plays Grey is very similar to Tom Hardy in this film. The action sequences in this movie are so cool thanks to his completion, and the switching between paralysis and ninja is good.
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