Directed by Leigh Whannell (2018)
by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy
Upgrade takes place in the near future and tells the story of Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green), a man who has shunned modern technology and spends his days working on muscle cars for fun and profit. On his way back from dropping off one of these repair jobs at the home of a local tech-giant, Eron (Harrison Gilbertson), he and his wife, Asha (Melanie Vallejo) are attacked and robbed, resulting in her death and his paralysis. In order to exact his Crank-like revenge (C’mon, we’ve all seen the trailer!), Eron offers to implant an experimental chip, Stem (Simon Maiden), in Grey that will help bridge the gaps left in his nervous system due to his spinal cord injury.
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