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Friday, April 25, 2014

Transcendence

I would say that I'm quite impress with the movie Transcendence although there are not many good reviews about the movie. In fact, Rotten Tomatoes only give Transcendence 18%; while on average the movie is getting slightly below average rating.

The movie is about Doctor Will Caster (Johnny Depp); a foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence who was at that time working on a machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His work made him famous and at the same time made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.



An attempt of assassination finally become the catalyst for him to succeed in his experiment, by becoming a participant in his transcendence. In attempt to re-create Will, his wife, Evelyn and best friend Max Waters upload Will to the digital world, using the same concept of Will's machine, PINN - and eventually they succeeded. 

However, their worst fear finally realized when Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown and it is slowly becoming obvious there is no stopping him.  

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier

It's been two years since the Battle of New York and Steve Rogers is having tough time adjusting to the modern lifestyle. While on a mission to free hostages aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel from pirates led by mercenary Georges Batroc together with agent Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rogers realized that Natasha Romanoff secretly extract data from the ship computer to Nick Fury. Rogers confront Fury and then is briefed on the Operation Insight.




Unable to decrypt the data recovered by Romanoff, Fury become suspicious about the Operation Insight. While on the way to meet Maria Hill, Fury was ambushed by assailants led by a mysterious assassin called the Winter Soldiers and he escaped to Rogers' apartment warns Rogers that S.H.I.E.L.D is compromised before gunned down by the Winter Soldier.

During the investigation, Rogers and Romanoff realized that Hydra was amongst S.H.I.E.L.D before they were attacked. Rogers and Romanoff enlist the help from Sam Wilson, a former military pararescueman whom Rogers befriended, and acquire his powered "Falcon" wingpack. They interrogate Zola who told them that HYDRA has a system to identify HYDRA's threat and Operation Insight is to eliminate the threat based on the specially developed data mining algorithm.

Friday, April 4, 2014