Upgrade (2018)

Upgrade rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 232K votes

Rotten Tomatoes88%

Metacritic67%

TMDb7.504/10· 5K votes

With 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 67/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Upgrade

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Cast of Upgrade

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  Logan Marshall-Green

  as Grey Trace

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  Betty Gabriel

  as Detective Cortez

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  Harrison Gilbertson

  as Eron Keen

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  Melanie Vallejo

  as Asha Trace

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  Benedict Hardie

  as Fisk

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  Linda Cropper

  as Pamela

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  Simon Maiden

  as Stem (voice)

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  Steve Danielsen

  as Jeff Handley

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  Richard Cawthorne

  as Serk

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  Christopher Kirby

  as Tolan

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  Abby Craden

  as Kara (voice)

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  Richard Anastasios

  as Wen

Upgrade facts

Budget

$3M

Box office

$17M

Our take on Upgrade

Leigh Whannell's 2018 science-fiction thriller follows Grey Trace, left paralyzed after a brutal mugging that also kills his wife. A billionaire inventor offers him a fix: an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that restores his mobility and grants superhuman strength and agility. Grey turns those new abilities toward hunting the men who destroyed his life. Lean and aggressively physical, it pairs a revenge plot with unsettling questions about who is really in control once technology takes over the body. The action is inventively staged and the pace unrelenting. Best suited to viewers who like their sci-fi violent, contained and ideas-driven rather than sprawling or effects-heavy.