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Transcendence (2014)
A waste of great potential
The premise of the movie has potential: If you could upload your conscience to a computer, what you would you with this new found power? How will society react? Is a computer copy of someone the same as the person?
But instead of exploring these ideas in a thoughtful way, it devolves into the rom-com trope of poor communication leading to bad decisions by everyone. Smart people made stupid, unthinking choices.
Though the questions above are "answered" by the movie, the writers missed that these are complex questions that don't have pat answers. It wanted to be a cerebral movie, but lacked any depth as evidenced by the one dimensional main characters.
Chu zi Xi zi Pi zi (2013)
Just keep watching ... it makes more sense
For the first part of the movie, I was disappointed. The movie starts with a very dramatic opening about a cholera outbreak that is devastating the population in Peking. Then it changes tones and becomes a strange comedy of overacting and ridiculousness. Just as I was about to give up, there is a twist in that explains things. Then the movie made more sense, and was quite enjoyable.
It is a lot of fun, zany, has interesting graphics, lots of twists, and is apparently based on a true story.
Overall, it was a great action, spy, comedy, out there movie that was really surprising considering the synopsis on Netflix.