'Upgrade' review: Digital cockroaches replace human brains in this extremely gory thriller
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jun 01, 2018
2 minutes
The fairly peppy, extremely gory science fiction thriller "Upgrade" was originally titled "Stem," referring to a digital cockroach ("a new, better brain," its pale inventor notes) implanted in the body of the protagonist. The time is the near future. The place is a world of driverless cars and Siri-like communications and control systems designed to
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