Upgrade (2018)

RMIT Melbourne film school success story, Leigh Whannell keeps his high-octane revenge thriller, an exceedingly violent sci-fi, surprisingly fresh for a movie that simply rehashes Robocop with Tom Hardy lookalike, Logan Marshall-Green, playing the victim of brutal violence that leaves his girlfriend dead and him a quadriplegic...until he is upgraded by a Venom-like technology implant.

★★★★☆

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Prometheus (2012)

This sci-fi horror on an epic scale has in its relatively short runtime way too many lofty themes and too many character story arcs - the one about Charlize Theron's family tree is the most clanging and underdeveloped - and so it all feels rushed, and in place of satisfying conclusions, there is an almost completely unnecessary - or, at least, unexplained - tie-in with Ridley Scott's Alien; nonetheless, this succeeds in being thought-provoking and entertaining.

★★★☆☆

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