Upgrade (2018)
Revenge movies are a pretty hefty genre all in themselves. Some are a bit hard to watch - I’m myself not particularly a fan of the real rape-y ones - while others try and emphasize a specific twist to differentiate themselves. I once watched an Antonio Banderas revenge flick where his twist was that he didn’t talk until the revenge was completed. In the case of Upgrade, the twist is cybernetic enhancements of the future! Look, let’s get real here - I saw a shotgun arm in a trailer for it, and that’s really all it took to sell me on checking this one out. Let’s find out if this movie can bring in the extra slot of RAM, or if it would have been better off being scrapped.
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