If
ever there was a movie made for IT nerds this is it and if you have to
ask what IT is, like I had to, this is not a movie for you. Did I follow
the movie? To a certain degree. Is it an easy movie to follow? Not the
technical aspects but it being sci-fi you know there will be barren
cities and a lot of special effects.

"Gravity" was special
because of the new special effects the director brought to the screen
but Wally Pfister, in his first movie as a director, doesn't bring
anything new in that sense. Johnny Depp is basically reduced to a
talking head on a computer screen. Near the beginning of the film he is a
top dying computer genius who has been experimenting with an afterlife
of making  a digital life with the personality, brain and emotions of a
human being. He uses his dying to prove the theories that he and his
wife, Evelyn, played by Rebecca Hall, have been working on for years.

I
won't go any more into the story as it involves many people who have
been shot, knifed or in one or another dying who are not only put back
together whole but show Marvel comic book hero strength and powers but
the latter is not really a major part of the story or the sci-fi. There
are twists and turns that really are meaningless.

Paul Bittany,
Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy and Kate Mara, along with the rest of
cast, do a professional job with only Rebecca Hall having a chance to
act. Johnny Depp, pardon the pun, calls his performance in. There is no
drama, a lame ending with, if you are paying attention, the beginning of
the film giving it away.

Instead of seeing "Transcendence" spend
your two hour movie time with seeing "Draft Day" a film without special
effects, excellent acting and a plot that will pull you in and pays
off.