Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Emmanuel Báez @ Cinéfiloz [Spanish]
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: With fun ideas like that, Upgrade may not stick to your ribs like classic action movies but it’s scarily effective in the moment.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: The film is a tonally playful rollercoaster ride filled with fun and unique action set-pieces, and a cast that is totally game for it. I had a giant grin on my face for pretty much the entire runtime, and it further solidifies Leigh Whannell as a director worth watching.
- Matt Donato @ SlashFilm
- Excerpt: It’s the kind of SmartHouse, techno-takeover world that Apple users dream of, blackened and revenge-ified by Whannell’s oddly apt Her meets Weekend At Bernie’s scramble – with way more splattered blood and guts.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- [New] | Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis [Spanish]
- Nguyen Le @ The Young Folks
- Excerpt: The implant is no Audemars Piguet, but hey, it still elevates the wearer!
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
- Excerpt: We feel as though we’re in this world—that it is real and tactile. The deaths are gruesome and punishing, the attitudes formed from futility and rebirth. I only wish there was more to offer than consequence-free action within. Some additional performative cheese would have sufficed.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Upgraded on a curve.
- C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Leigh Whannell’s second feature is a highly original slice of genre love. Aside from that, Whannell opens up an important conversation about humanity in regards to our relationship to technology.
