Wally Pfister, cinematographer for Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception, in which he also won an Oscar for, is now sitting on the big boy chair as the director for Transcendence.
I won't fault him for taking this shot, one has got to start somewhere and this movie seemed like a good choice, too.
However, while the cinematography in this had many beautiful moments, and I could also see some aerial shots that were reminiscent of The Dark Knight Trilogy, the storytelling wasn't compelling enough or driven enough. The first 3/4 was a snooze fest, I had trouble keeping eyes open. The first half was just at a snail's pace as we slowly witnessed Johnny Depp's "transformation".
To boast a cast that also included Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, and the great Morgan Freeman, all of them looked bored and boring at the same time.
Especially Depp who, while in human form, looked very out of place without some heavy and ostentatious get-up and make-up. I'm so used to him in eye-liner and what-not that I almost couldn't accept a "normal" performance from him. And while he was on a screen, he never felt as boring as well. But towards the end I saw a little bit why he's in this role.
The story went from a science-fiction thriller to an unacceptable level when some form of nanotechnology could even repair broken building objects. That was pushing it for me and took me out of the story.
Only the ending I found some solace because there was finally some emotions. But also the ending asked the audience what actually was real, but unlike Inception, I couldn't care less here and it didn't matter to me how it ended.
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