You probably couldn't write a film with more interesting ideas than Transcendence; asking incredibly deep questions about what it means to be human. What is consciousness? Should we be skeptical of our heavy reliance on technology in late-modernity? Will trans-humanism be the next step of the evolution of our species - allowing us to thrive, tapping our universal untapped cognitive potential, or will it be our downfall?
And yet, these ideas are put into practice with an amount of heavy-handedness…
