Transcendence Review

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Rotten Tomatoes: 19%

Opening Weekend: $10.9m

Rated: PG-13
Sexual Content: 2/10
Violence: 6/10
Profanity: 7/10 F one time, some uses of S, B, A, and D.
Drugs/Alcohol: 4/10

IMDb: As Dr. Will Caster works toward his goal of creating an omniscient, sentient machine, a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent him from establishing a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

Transcendence explores the dangers of technology.  This could have been a great, but everything that was built up to be awesome, withered and fell apart.  I really wanted to like this movie!  Even the love story between the two was interesting until about the middle.  In my opinion they would have done better to split this story into two or three movies.  That would have made the third act much more enthralling and interesting.

Transcendence also tries to show the power of love.  Evelyn Caster will stop at nothing to save her dying husband even if it means uploading his conscious to a AI system.  When it proved to be a success there was the question of whether or not the system was really him.  That question lingers until the very end of the movie.  Once he is online then he essentially becomes a perfect being and you wonder if the AI version of him has the capability to love Evelyn back.  

With seeing what Will Caster does with his new power, I found myself pondering human error and what a good thing that is.  If we all were able to upload our brains to the internet so that all the information out there was accessible from our minds, would there be room for human error?  A fourth grader could access all the answers to his multiple choice questions on his math test.  If you wanted to be a helicopter pilot, you could just find the files on the internet that contain all the information about the helicopter and how to fly it and there you go; they are in your brain instantly.  Part of the joy in life is being able to learn, grow, stretch, reach, mess up, start over,and finally complete our goals.  This makes us better people.  If we take out the experiences we go through and we reach our goals without that I think that we would become unsatisfied.  Hard work, effort, and human error; all these things are there for us to struggle through this life and ultimately live a life that would bring us joy.

Transcendence is a 4/10