Upgrade: Good clean gory fun of the genre-hopping variety

Review: A nifty bit of film-making trading on contemporary AI paranoia

Logan Marshall-Green in Upgrade

Logan Marshall-Green in Upgrade

To paraphrase Alan Partridge, I’ve got genre pie all over my face. Stand back as the spine of Death Wish is grafted to the mind of Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey and performs the busting bullet time moves of The Matrix. Say hi to the most unabashedly limitless joint since, well, Limitless.

Blumhouse Tilt, for anyone who has missed it, is the multiplatform wing of the remarkable house that Jason Blum has built. No one is going to mistake the new film from Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell for this year’s Get Out, but it’s a nifty bit of film-making trading on contemporary AI paranoia and more generalised latent Luddite tendencies.

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