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Upgrade Movie Explained
Upgrade Movie Explained
Upgrade Movie Explained
The movie begins with the mechanic working on a car in his garage
He closes the hood and starts the engine, overjoyed at his success in fixing the
car
He pops open a bottle of beer in celebration, and steps out of the garage
The couple exchange smiles, and walks inside their opulent home
As dusk falls, the couple drives the car from their home in an ultra-modern city,
and has always refused the modern technology commonly used in their society;
After their meeting, the mechanic and his wife drive home in her self-driving car
The mechanic notices that the car is going the opposite way to their house
The wife tries to fix the car's route; but the computer controlling it
malfunctions
The vehicle speeds up, and they crash near the docks
Several armed men emerge from a car behind them, and haul the couple out of the
wreckage
They shoot them both, then leave the crime scene
The wife dies while the mechanic stays conscious, but he can no longer feel his
legs
but is permanently paralyzed because the bullet had hit his spine
He adjusts to life as a quadriplegic, with his mother by his side to take care of
him
He falls into a depression, and barely talks, eats, or goes out of the house
One morning, the mechanic goes down to the police station with his mother
He is frustrated that the detective assigned to his wife's case has not made any
progress at all
Luckily, the AI in his home detects his attempt, and quickly calls for an
ambulance
The inventor visits him, and offers him another chance at life:
However, the inventor's condition is that the mechanic has to keep pretending that
he is paralyzed,
because he does not want the public to know about the microchip yet
He hesitates first, and says yes finally; and the surgery goes smoothly
The inventor makes him sign a confidentiality agreement, because human testing is
still illegal
The mechanic arrives home, and discovers that his microchip can actually talk
inside his head
The microchip points out something in the drone footage of his wife's murder
The man who shot his wife, wasn't holding a gun, but had a gun implanted inside
his hand
The microchip also identifies another one of the men by a marking on his wrist
Within seconds, he is able to come up with the man's background and address
and finds proof that the man was fused with cybernetic implants
Unfortunately, the man returns to his house, and gets into an altercation with the
mechanic
and the microchip urges him to grant it permission to take over his body
The mechanic agrees; and the microchip immediately controls his body,
The microchip calmly tells him to erase any evidence of him from the man's house
He informs the detective that they found one shoeprint in the crime scene,
However, she finds no trace of him in the drone footage of the man's house that
day;
and as far as she knows he can't walk, so he wouldn't have been able to make the
footprint
Meanwhile, the mechanic goes to the inventor's house for further tests
and warns him against using the microchip to investigate his wife's murder
The mechanic then confronts him about the microchip's ability to talk inside his
head;
the detective pays a visit to the mechanic's house under the pretense of buying his
car
She tries to catch him on a lie, but the microchip successfully coaches him on his
alibi
Later that night, the mechanic goes to the local bar mentioned in the man's
messages
He enters in his wheelchair, and loudly announces to the rest of the people
inside,
One of the assailants stands up, and takes the mechanic to the restroom
The microchip takes over once again; and he overpowers the assailant
he learns that the group of armed men was employed by his wife's tech corporation,
and the same corporation had upgraded those men with implants
The microchip informs the mechanic that the inventor is now trying to remotely shut
it down,
probably because he saw that the mechanic is once again risking exposure,
and gives the mechanic the name and address of a nearby hacker, who can reverse the
system shutdown
The mechanic leaves his wheelchair at the bar, and runs out into the night
Outside the hacker's building, he begins to lose control of his legs due to the
impending shutdown
The mechanic races against time to get to the hacker's apartment upstairs
Back in the bar restroom, the ringleader of the armed men finds the assailant's
body
She hauls his paralyzed body inside a warehouse, and starts disabling the
inventor's input guards
The hacker comments that these people prefer to live in an illusion, because
reality is painful
She then tells him that once his system reboots, he can walk again
The mechanic is slowly regaining the use of his limbs; but the microchip's voice
still isn't back
The mechanic is cornered on the rooftop; and he fights one of the goons and kills
him
The mechanic goes home, and inadvertently reveals to his mother that he can walk
again
She is just glad that he has regained the use of his limbs,
and tells him that his wife would want him to be happy
He wakes up with a start; and his mother tells him that the detective is at the
front door
She questions him about the wheelchair he left behind the bar,
where the assailant's tortured body was found, intent on linking him to the murders
She secretly plants a listening device in the mechanic's jacket pocket; then
leaves
However, the microchip reveals that when the hacker disabled the input guards,
Inside her car, the detective takes note of everything that the mechanic is saying
The microchip takes control of another car, and crashes it into the detective's
car
The detective returns to the mechanic's house, and asks his mother to tell her the
truth
and that he and his men were hired to sever the mechanic's spine
The ringleader didn't actually use a gun to shoot him, but a medical tool instead
The ringleader also confesses that he feels a certain kinship with the mechanic,
However, the ringleader's modifications are superior; and so he isn't able to land
a blow
who hired them to sever his spine and kill his wife
In a blind rage, the mechanic goes to the inventor's house, and kills his guards
He demands to know why; but the inventor vehemently denies the accusation
The mechanic tries to stop the microchip by stabbing his own hand; but the system
persists
With the mechanic now momentarily incapacitated, the inventor grabs the gun, and
points it at him
The microchip makes all the decisions, including choosing the mechanic as its
human host,
in order to make him believe that the inventor was the mastermind
who refused to have any of the modern implants like IDs and trackers,
The effects of the taser fade; and the microchip regains control of his body
but the mechanic fights it for the body control, and shoots himself instead
Later, He wakes up in a hospital room, with the microchip no longer in his head
His wife appears, and explains to him that they were in an accident,
He begins to believe that everything that happened was just a vivid dream;
The microchip is now fully in control, because just like the VR users in the
warehouse,
the mechanic would prefer the illusion over a reality where his wife is dead
The upgrade now walks away, intent on conquering the rest of the world next
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