 So the guy that I hear a number of people seeing mimics Tom Hardy is hitting this summer real hard with this latest film upgrade. But how was it? Let's find out. My name is Brinicky Thavery and this is just my opinion. Hey everyone thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for upgrade I really do appreciate it. So a couple of months ago when I saw the trailer for this movie upgrade I was blown away. I didn't see the green brand trailer I saw the red band trailer anytime there's a red band trailer released for any film that I'm interested in I'm always going to choose that over the green band trailer because I want my expectations and my first impressions to be a good one. When my first impressions were great I was on board with this film you can go check out my reaction to it I strongly suggest you do but I was oozing and all in my seat jumping up and down just not could not believe all the crazy action and choreography that was going on in this film. I mean this was right up my alley and my expectations were through the roof like I said and I just could not wait to see it. Now this movie is being directed written and directed by Leigh Walnell and it's funny when I looked up his picture just now you know just to take some notes and I actually saw this film about three or four weeks ago but the embargo was this week and they had a question and answer segment afterwards and he just doesn't look like the guy that was in the picture that I saw I mean I didn't go up and shake his hand doing the Q&A I was kind of in the you know back middle but they just kind of threw me for a loop but if you know Leigh Walnell he's pretty popular writer he's done more writing than directing this is only his second film that he's directed the first one was in CDS Chapter 3 and he's also been part of the writing scene for the Saw franchise which came out with the first one in 2004 and I think they're even trying to make it eighth one which you know they made the Jigsaw movie last year so I brought his name up just to say that I think that he is a decent writer because at least the first three Saw films I'm a fan of I think those are pretty quality films for the most part especially the writing with all the intricacies that goes on with theirs so if you're a fan of him you're gonna you know he's part of the upgrade and this will make you satisfied but in the intro of this review excuse me in the intro of this review I was saying that hey you know the guy that a lot of people say reminds him of Tom Hardy that's Logan Marshall Green and if you look at the two he does kind of look like a younger version or or I hate to use this term or just like a watered down version of Tom Hardy Tom Hardy is great but at the same time I'm going to separate the two you know he has nothing to do with Tom Hardy he's his own great thing and as far as an actor is concerned and I have a lot of respect for him especially after watching this film here past films that he's been in I think he popped up on the scene for me which was in 2012 with Prometheus he also did Devil in 2010 I saw that film in theaters well I remember I took a date to go see that we had a good time he was also an Spider-Man homecoming and also Snowden that came out last year and you know he was he's the main character of the film his name is his name in the film is Gray and I don't know it's just kind of fitting I like Gray as his name and I also just like it kind of just tying in with something else that I like that I'm jumping around here that has to do with the cinematography and which is freaking fantastic in this film it really did set the tone and get you in the mood of this this futuristic type world that they're living in where technology is just becoming more and more prominent even more today I mean we think that we're slaves of technology today wait till you see this movie it some of it is quite scary but at the same time it is very intriguing because you're like man I wonder when we're going to have this type of device or that type of device so that's just something that I liked about the movie but going back to Logan Marshall Green and his character Gray for some reason just hearing his name Gray and with the cinematography and I know this kind of gets thrown around a lot with this kind of like a gritty realistic tone that's just kind of the tone I got so when I hear gritty and realistic one of the colors that pops in my mind is black and gray and so to hear his name being called Gray in the movie I don't know they just done something they just kind of did something for me kind of put a smile on my face and just kind of like you know entrench me you know into the film already than I was before and now as far as like I mean a lot of people are going to want to go see this film is because of the action and all that good stuff that you see in the trailers and you know all the viciousness and you know how visceral and just you know high intense this film is and I'll get to that in the second but what impressed me the most was the character development between Gray's character because you really do get to know him very early on in the film you know he's a married man this is a revenge plot you know in the trailers that his wife was murdered and he's trying to get revenge but he really does love his wife and what stood out to me is they didn't necessarily make this a point in the movie I kind of just filled in the blanks myself and kind of read between the lines but I think that his wife made more money than he did or his wife is the one that wore the pants well no I don't I take the pain I don't want to say she wore the pants but I just say I for some reason I got the sense that she was the breadwinner she was the breadmaker in this film now in today's world well not necessarily today in the past you know that would really get so a lot of male egos oh my god you know my my wife makes more than me or women can't make more than men or you know women are weak and men are strong and blah blah blah that stupid stuff but what I really did like about this in this film his character Gray Logan Marshall Green is if that was the case it really didn't seem like that was a problem for him it just really seemed like he was happy with the life that he had he had a loving wife that loved him they kind of joked around in a way that most couples or married people won't uh but you know you do whatever works for you in your relationship screw what everybody else says and that's just kind of like you know how it took it I mean he really does love his wife he doesn't let the fact that she makes more money than him or she's the one that's working and he's the one to stay at home bother him he's just a humble person that's really appreciative of everything that he has whether it's a material thing a metaphorical thing or a sentimental thing or whatever and that's just kind of like really humanize his character and got me on board with him and like when the crap hits the fan and his wife is murdered and you know he becomes a per is it a per it's a quadriplegic because he can't move his arms and legs I mean he's really like a vegetable in the in a sense you know you already cared about his character and then you care about his character even more you know when he's bedridden and he can't move I mean he's like freaking paralyzed you know and it's just like really sad and the film spent a good amount of time there just like no you're gonna wait for this action I'm gonna make sure you you know you earn it you know you're gonna have to deserve this action and the way to deserve it is you gotta get you gotta get to know local marshes green character and you have to understand where it's coming from and you just have to let that just seep in and they did that with a lot of long shots a great score you know with the music in the background it's like man you know the situation it's it's just not like you know I mean you felt sorry for John Wick when his dog died or whatever and you know there was just like a really short period of of not not remorse that I'm sorry guys the word is slipping you know but in that movie John Wick there was just a really really short time for him just to take in what happened before you know he's breaking out his old weapons going through about what a plan about the wreck shop you know you really did get to see you know him in this movie upgrade local marshes green character gray just really you know take in the tragedy that they had to go through you know with him losing his wife and him having to cope that not only did it lose his wife I mean the guy can't even you know move around even if he won even if he had all the resources in the world to help him seek revenge he can't even do that so you know that's just something that really just stood out to me there now like you guys you you you fell in love with the character and so when the nefarious character comes through like you know hey gray I have this device here cost him it can take you over and do this and do that you know the guy playing that role I did not like him at first he was extremely weird he was very slimy I think I don't even I don't even remember his name I yeah I'm looking at a picture right now and I am to be I don't think that's it but I wasn't really feeling the villain or the nefarious character first he was just like really creepy to me and I'm just like dude you have no social skills at all but at the same time I checked myself and I was like Brandon I mean most geniuses and just super rich people and all that good stuff they don't have a hold of reality like everybody else does they are socially awkward so I was kind of like well that kind of does fit within you know you know the two contexts of the world you know how they put it in the film so I eventually was able to accept it but of course you guys want to know how the action is okay even if you saw the red band trailer for this movie the trailers don't do any justice like the trailers are good but the action in this movie is like twice is better than it was in the trailer even the trait even if you like watch the trailer like five times in a row you're like ooh and all and like oh my god that was great yada yada yada when you see the it's like you know that's the the red band version of the trailer of the red band trailer versions of this movie is still like the watered down version of what they have in the movie I was like still blown away of a lot of scenes in this movie and the way that it's just choreographed it is just so freaking clean and and just precise you know there is like no wasted movement in this martial arts or whatever and I like ate up every second of it I was on and on in the screen you know the guy to my right this woman to my left because we saw this at a what was it the I'm not a studio movie grill Alamo Draft Houses where where we saw it at everybody in the freaking theater was screaming like oh shit oh snap sorry you know oh my god like oh oh oh oh oh like seriously just like oh oh man oh oh my god I mean like it was like really really really really violent and you know I kind of like that because the person the the um the device that is taking over Gray's body it is a computerized like robotic type of thing so it's not human it doesn't have you know you know decency of human life or whatever I mean even if I mean if you're you know doing self-defense or whatever and you're trying to kill somebody yeah you're gonna I mean you're doing self-defense and you kill somebody yeah you're probably gonna do what you have to do to put them down but at the same time you're not gonna stomp if the person is dead you're not gonna like stomp their head in the ground repeatedly or whatever and now I'm not necessarily saying that Stem did that in this movie but he has that mindset I'm just like dude was that really necessary I mean you won the fight did you really have to rip the guy's head off no no one's head got ripped off in this movie I'm not gonna spoil a particular death for you here but I was just like freaking blown away um the action just was freaking the same and like I cannot wait to see this again or buy this movie just you know because of the action alone and let's just go to the title of the movie upgrade that has more than one meaning of this in this movie I don't necessarily I don't know this is not I'm this is not a spoiler but the when they say upgrade yes gray was upgraded but upgrade is kind of like a race of new people you know I'm saying like kind of like half half a machine half human or whatever and there's different types of upgrades you know uh gray has this type of upgrade but another person that has the upgrades where you know they have a gun installed in their arm or whatever and they can load like shotgun shells in their hand and go around and blast them you like this or someone else may have an upgrade where they have like computerized eyes so they can like see something super duper well and process information very fast it's crazy all the technological advances they have in this movie so some of them do seem realistic some of them seem extremely far-fetched but it does scare me but also keep me intrigued for the future you know so when the film can kind of do all of that and like less than an hour and a half I think this came in like an hour and 31 minutes you know I just got to give us some kudos there I also like the relationship that Gray had with his mother it was really good and I felt very very sorry for the mother at the very end there was this one shot of her to where she was emoting about something and I actually said to myself damn you know it's like I'm not saying that I cried anything like that but you know I really I'm not a woman so I can't ever be a mother and imagine what mothers go through when they want to you know dealing with their children before this one moment not only could I sympathize with I could empathize with it as well and I'm just like man you know this just really really sucks there is a twist towards the end before I hit record on this camera I was like Brandon are you gonna bring up the twist because you went in I know that it was gonna be a twist so shouldn't everybody else well maybe but at the same time I think you should be prepared for it you won't see it coming and it was somewhat shocking and I actually said you know damn again you know for the second no I said damn when the twist came and I said damn again for the second time when I saw something I saw something with the mother towards the end of the film and it ended in a way I did not see coming it raised it answers some questions but also raised more which is a bad thing that's one of my knocks about the film when the twist came around I kind of said back was okay I see this now and I see it again and now that I know this I can't wait to watch it again because I know this information however I think there are some plot holes that revealed itself when the twist came about so where I was kind of asking myself okay if this is how everything is really going down was all this other stuff over here really necessary and I don't think that it was my only other gripe in the film was that there was a few times to where it did get a you know just kind of dip down in the boredom area maybe for about a minute or two before things picked up but for the most part this is a very smooth flowing entertaining film that is just high intensity violence excuse me and has some hand-to-hand choreography this one scene towards the end that is dang near competing with the raid and the raid redemption those indonesian films that came out a few years ago but I really did enjoy it and I think you would too if I have to rate upgrade out of a one out of ten I will get it I'm going to give it an eight out of ten yes an eight out of ten but guys in the end you know I said all that but it's really just my opinion okay what did you think about upgrade or have you seen it yet or do you want to see it how about 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