Transcendence

Deserves a better rating, worth watching in 2025

I am incredibly surprised by all the negative reviews. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it; I guess it just isn't for everyone... It is a great movie and deserves a much better rating in my opinion.

For a movie made in 2014, Transcendence is an interesting movie to watch in 2025, when the world is full of AI. The kind of future the movie depicts is thought-provoking as we try to build self-awareness into AI. Worth watching if you are into this kind of ideas. I don’t feel bored at all. But most people cannot fully understand the depth behind it, or lack the genuine interest to understand it. Sadly they naturally give bad reviews. A typical movie with a topic too deep to be widely appreciated by everyone. But overall nice movie!!!

An interesting premise executed extremely poorly.

Well it's better than Lawnmower Man and doesn't look like a video game half the time. But it's so boring, lifeless, dull, and unispired direction wise. The music is boring, generic, and forgettable. Everything else isn't good here. The direction is super basic and this looks so dark and metallic grey. The real problem is how terribly it sets up the plot and characters at the start. It's done so poorly that it's almost incoherent with so much stuff happening and jumping it doesn't make sense. Than it becomes a generic A.I. controlling humans story. No one has any life to there performance. At best they just read lines and at worst are so dull. The ideas it presents are interesting and in the right hands could excel. But this never does it because the characters are setup porrly and are boring. Setting up and building the data farm is just boring to look at and so slow. The climax is just not much either. This really has nothing going for it besides it consistent with it's lifeless tone the entire way. It does get better in the middle when it focuses on Deep becoming the computer. The ending though feels like a cop out and doesn't really make that much sense if you think about it. Skip this.

Watched this movie with a friend, and honestly there are hundreds of negative reviews on here, most of the people here don't have brain cells, they don't stop for a minute and actually think about what they're watching, they need it to be in short form content, honestly the entire aspect of it being bad because it's either emotionless, has plot holes, or whatever else excuse they make up is baloney, the emotions were perfectly in place depending on the situations and context, the plot holes were apparent in some small areas and details, but it IS a science fiction at the end of the day so you can't expect it to be perfect, but most of the things in the movie could be answered if you gave it a single thought.

Shallow, boring, very poorly written story, weak action and no plot twists. One of worst films that i watched.

Content to settle for long pontifications about the nature of artificial intelligence and mankind instead of rendering convincing characters or anchoring drama, Transcendence fails to generate any intrigue, involvement, or subtlety that could make this narratively flat anachronism worth a backwards glance.

terrible, for an AI this supposedly surpassed the entirety of human intelligence it is a fucking moron and how did the failures hack it? Max failed at his research and obviously it means nobody and nothing else can succeed.

🍀 2.3/10 Johnny Depp‘s emotionless floating head is something that can only be captured in nightmares. honestly, if this film came out today, I bet people would say it was made by ai it just perfectly captures dullness in a way i’ve never actually seen it done. It beautifully depicts the Number of my sanity, dropping questioning why I even took time out of my life to watch it.