Transcendence

*Random side note*
This is my 100th post! Whoop! : )

Transcendence (2014)
Directed by Wally Pfister.

Only one more of these to go after this one and I'll finally be caught up for now! (yay)

So this actually wasn't a bad movie. Pretty much everybody has said it was, and even I am saying that...a little.

What caused audiences and critics to say such mean things about this film is that we expected it to be a Christopher Nolan film. And it wasn't. (For those who don't know, Wally Pfister has been Nolan's cinematographer for forever, shooting Inception [for which he won an Oscar], Nolan's Batman trilogy, and Momento.)

Was that an unrealistic expectation? Of course. And there was no way Transcendence could survive that.

Sure, it was an extremely visually intriguing film. I would even call it a beautiful film. But the performances were lackluster, the premise was pretty flimsy, and it just wasn't very well made overall.

This just goes to show that movies need more than great visual effects.

2.5 out of 5 stars.
Viewed at Cinema 6 in Mt. Pleasant, TX on April 18, 2014.