What is human?

Calvin Peat  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jun 2014
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What is human?

Johnny Depp | photo: Peter Mountain

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Director
Wally Pfister
Cert. 12A 119 mins

When the brilliant scientist Dr Will Caster (Johnny Depp) finds out he’s dying, he, along with his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and their mutual friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), attempt to upload his brain to a computer, thereby beating death.

They’re opposed by a group called Unplug (Kate Mara and others), who think that such technology poses a danger to humanity and are prepared to kill to stop it.

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