Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed - to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can - but if they should. Their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.
This movie was majorly disappointing. Imagine watching the genius that was Inception a few years back but with zero emotional hook and no intense build up to the whole process that kept your eyes totally glued to the screen? Substitute the internet for dreams plus that aforementioned imagination and you have Transcendence. This movie wanted so desperately to be Inception like and it couldn't have been further from it. About half way through the movie I had pretty much pulled the plug on being fully interested in it anymore and was just there in body. This will probably be the most disappointing movie of the year for me.
I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering to go see this. It was a veiled attempt at recreating something truly amazing without all of the hard work with direction, writing and acting.
