After years of lending visual flair to Christopher Nolan’s heady films, cinematographer Wally Pfister finally makes his directorial debut with the sci-fi drama Transcendence. Like Nolan’s efforts, Pfister’s picture has narrative ambition, along with familiar actors (like Cillian Murphy and Morgan Freeman), although it fails to fulfill grand promises made by its screenwriter Jack Paglen. Transcendence introduces several controversial scientific topics begging for commentary such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, regeneration, and cloning—yet none of them receive the depth that they deserve.
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