Upgrade's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
"If it all sounds a little familiar and reductive, like an electronically enhanced ?Death Wish,? that?s only because the film?s silly secrets and brutal set pieces are an integral part of the plot mix and can?t be revealed."
Vulture
" 'Upgrade' exists for those fight scenes ? not only for their chop-socky glory, but for the subsequent horror and delight and guilt on Marshall-Green?s face as STEM eviscerates his enemies for him."
New York Times
" ?Upgrade? is an energetic, superficially slick, latter-day B-movie of the ?but dumb? category. That is, it?s kind of like ?RoboCop,? but dumb, and also like ?Ex Machina,? but dumb."
The Guardian
"When humanity?s wire-and-circuit conquerors rise up to claim their position as the new ruling class, Whannell should be the first to smugly declare that he warned us."
Indiewire
"Those action beats are kinetic and ingenious, and director Leigh Whannell (who wrote several ?Saw? movies and all of the ?Insidious? films, as well as directing the third in that series) stages them with vigor, moving the camera in tandem with his hero, keying off the character?s shock and amusement."
Variety
"But the pummeler we see is no different, really, than a thousand action heroes, from Jason Bourne to whoever Jason Statham is playing on VOD this week, who never make a wrong move and always defeat each foe with slashing invincibility."
The Washington Post
"An entertaining science fiction thriller, but not original (...) Leigh Whannell topics are as predictibles as his premise"
The Hollywood Reporter
"A frenetic, inventive and exciting journey (...) 'Upgrade' is more entertaining that it should be"
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote