Film Review – Transcendence

Wally Pfister has worked as a cinematographer on the majority of Christopher Nolan’s filmography, dating back to 2000’s “Memento.” “Transcendence” is his debut as a director, and to preserve the box office odds of this maiden voyage, he’s selected material that closely mirrors the Nolan aesthetic, blending sci-fi, action, and scientific study into a thought-provoking movie that’s out to stir debate and summon a few thrills. Sadly, Pfister has a long way to go before he matches Nolan’s command of pace and visual invention, as “Transcendence,” while provocative, is a glacially paced endeavor that’s miscast and mopey, abandoning intriguing ideas on the suction of omnipresent technology to conjure a pedestrian love story that features the occasional blip of suspense. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com