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'Upgrade' is a sleek, strikingly designed A.I. vigilante thriller

Before he becomes a souped-up killing machine in the sleek dystopian thriller "Upgrade," Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) is a stubbornly analog hero in an overwhelmingly digital world.

A grizzled auto mechanic, Grey is first shown working contentedly in his garage, tinkering under the hood of a vintage automobile while Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightnin' " plays in the background.

The year could be 2018 or 1978. But then Grey steps into his chic modernist fortress of a house, and it's clear we're in a not-so-distant future, where drone cameras scan

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