Upgrade

About Upgrade

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body.

Upgrade is a 2018 science fiction thriller film directed by Leigh Whannell. Its themes are artificial intelligence (a.i.), future, violence, and body horror.

Logan Marshall-Green appears as Grey Trace, Betty Gabriel as Detective Cortez, Harrison Gilbertson as Eron Keen, and Melanie Vallejo as Asha Trace. It runs 100 minutes and was released in May 2018.

The screenplay is by Leigh Whannell. It was produced by Automatik Entertainment, BH Tilt, and Blumhouse Productions. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, and RoboCop make useful companions to Upgrade, all filed under cyberpunk and cyber thriller. TMDB voters put it at 7.5 out of 10 across 5,351 votes and it carries a R rating.