Movie review: “Transcendence”
It was keenly awaited by people interested in the possible near-term arrival of super-intelligence, but Transcendence has opened to half-empty cinemas and terrible reviews - at the time of writing it has a 20% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The distributors kept changing the release date, which might indicate they realised the film wouldn't open with a splash, but that they hope it could grow to become a cult classic. Sadly, I doubt it. Sadly, because in some ways Transcendence is a fine film with great ambitions. For me it is one of the best science fiction films of recent...