“Transcendence” looked good on paper but not in execution.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2022

Transcendence looks like a top-notch production, but nothing about it stands out in any way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Asks some interesting questions but might have been more thought provoking if it was a better movie

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

What should have been an intriguing sci-fi thriller is reduced to a series of Cliff's Notes that leave little more than a muted impact intellectually and emotionally.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Watching this felt like an old person telling us whippersnappers to get off the computer and go outside and play.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 21, 2020

Tech-thriller Transcendence can certainly be gorgeous to look at, full of sweeping aerial shots and low-angle close ups of nature. But the rest of the is flat, stiff imagining of the worst-case scenario.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 8, 2020

It was certainly boring.

Full Review | May 26, 2020

It was competent, but boring... which is kind of the worst.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2020

[I]ntriguing visuals that tell a story...Sadly, however, there are too many themes and not enough clarity to engage during the film itself, a failure that also falls on the lack of a human touch within two of the film's principals - Depp and Hall.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 14, 2019

The film's shockingly lackluster visual artistry can't even awe or distract us away from the empty headedness transpiring on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 30, 2019

At its best, Transcendence could have been the cyberpunk of William Gibson or the speculative fiction of Philip K Dick. Instead, it was like listening to someone who read Gibson and Dick try to seem smart by retelling their books to you.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 6, 2019

It is the sort of movie where you will know the moment it defeats itself, but will still appreciate and respect the effort in the trying.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Transcendence does look beautiful, but this only reaffirms it to be a classic example of style over substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2019

Disappointingly, despite the top-notch cast headlining the film, Transcendence does not quite live up to its potential. The narrative is too clunky and the characters are a tad superficial.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2019

After a compelling beginning, it jumps off the cliff quickly.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2019

It never really clicks and grows progressively hokey and dull. It's a waste of a lot of talented people.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Jan 24, 2019

Transcendence is neither a success nor a failure. It has flashes of brilliance, but it has too many gaps, including a question about a key decision made in the last act. It's worthy, but it's not all it could have been.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 15, 2019

Transcendence should have been infested with convincing amounts of personality and precision. Instead, it lingers on in disbelief with all the stability of a faulty hard drive in an antiquated IBM computer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2018

It takes a solid premise for a sci-fi thriller and makes it as invigorating as a physics lecture, and one where the science doesn't even add up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Right now Transcendence is akin to a well-dressed drunk - on the surface nice and sophisticated yet not so much in terms of executing thoughts.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2018