Johnny Depp, playing a dying scientist, has his brain uploaded to mind-numbing effect in Transcendence where nothing happens that you havent seen done much better in almost any computer-oriented sci-fi epic of the last six decades. <\/p>\n
Lethargic direction, bland visuals, credulity-straining plotting and tin-eared dialogue turn even pros like Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany and Morgan Freeman into sleepwalking bores. <\/p>\n
Things start off on a promising note, with a shot of a computer keyboard being used as a doorstop. The Web has crashed and cant be fixed. <\/p>\n
Bettany tells us exactly how that happened in droning narration thats going to explain Every. Last. Thing. (Except why the Web cant be fixed.) <\/p>\n
Hall plays Depps wife and professional collaborator hes the worlds leading expert on artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n
When he suffers a lethal encounter with cyber-terrorists, she urges him to let her use his remaining month of life to basically upload his genius to a Web cloud so he can continue his work. <\/p>\n
I havent given away anything that isnt apparent from the trailer. But now I need to get into spoilerish territory to do a proper demolition job on this fiasco. <\/p>\n
Depps former associates, Bettany and Freeman, come to question whether its really a resurrected Depp they hear through computer speakers and see on monitors, or just a computer program with evil intent mimicking him. <\/p>\n
But Hall insists that the digitized version of her formerly modest husband is real and not Memorex even when he begins laying plans to control the world. <\/p>\n
Its not a horrible premise for a movie, but the execution is exceedingly trite and sloppy. <\/p>\n
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