Transcendence is a computer thriller which gives food for thought - what if society's thirst for technology eclipses itself and potentially becomes the beginning of the end of the world as we know it?
Transcendence is a deep, complex and challenging film. It ask the viewer to consider several questions. Can artificial intelligence be created so advanced it actually becomes self-aware? And if so, then what? Where does that computerised evolution end? And at what cost?
At the centre of such a conundrum is world-renowned scientist Dr Will Caster, played by Johnny Depp.
The audience is thrust into the dilemmas when Depp's character is killed when anti-technology protesters plant bombs in some of the world's leading labs.
But Depp's character lives on in an artificial intelligence computer system after his consciousness is uploaded by equally passionate scientist wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany).