Rivetting film on sci-fi love

Transcendence
Starring: Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall
Rated: 7/10
Hollywood is going nuts on the imagination front and I am loving it! Just the other month, it had the main protagonist falling in love with a computer operating system with has a woman’s voice, which, hold your heart guys, dumps him and gives him a massive heartbreak! Then there was Sandra Bullock who, not too long ago, got suspended in space for the entire movie, which, again hold your heart, won no less than seven Oscars.
And now you have a star no less than Johnny Depp dying of radiation only to digitised his brain cells and live as artificial intelligence happily ever after with his wife.
You could call it a riveting love story where an uploaded Depp manages to experiment with nano technology to regenerate human bodies and give sight to the blind, muscle to the crippled and unexplained strength to a man blown up by dynamite.
Being an unabashed Deppist, one would have wanted more of him and his screen quirks in flesh and blood. But that does not take away from this sci-fiction’s content which keeps you agape for quite a while into the movie even if you happen to be an anti-technologist.
Depp being a computer system wanting to dole out an ageless, diseaseless world where no one lives or dies naturally keeps you hooked on to the hi-tech mumbo-jumbo aided and abetted well by Morgan Freeman and Rebecca Hall.
The props in the film are many. Right from the storyline, to the imagery, to the computer graphics to the actors and their predicaments, everything is in good and right space. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 20 April, 2014

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