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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Robocop (2014)

Downloading the entire police database and all CCTV footage since 2011 into cybernetically-enhanced cop Alex Murphy's mind moments prior to his public unveiling seems short-sighted of Omnicorp scientists, but otherwise this updated Robocop is great, retaining the conscience, heart and soul, and the moments of wry humour of Paul Verhoeven's beloved 1987 original while augmenting the special effects with turbo-charged cybernetic enhancements that justify the remake - it just belabours its techy set-up and launches too quickly into its final act, is all. 

★★★☆☆

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