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TKPNPodcast
9/10  7 years ago
I finally got around to seeing ==Hush== the other day and said I found my new favorite **Blumhouse** movie. Now, in under a week, I have a new favorite **Blumhouse** movie.

Unlike other Blumhouse films, this is an action movie, but think more gory ==Robocop== and less Lethal Weapon. Logan Marshall-Green (_NOT TOM HARDY_ but I agree is the spitting image) does an incredible job of a man who becomes a paraplegic and loses his wife as a victim of a terrible crime. A young wiz-kid technological prodigy offers him the ability to walk again using a superchip developed for just such a case as this. (This, by the way, has an eerie connection to a famous Iron Man storyline in the comics, but let's move on.)

The chip decides to speak up and help Not Hardly Tom Hardy get some good old fashioned (like Biblical old) justice on the scumballs that did this to him. But it is all more complicated than you think. Good humor as the man has his body run by a machine that apparently trained under ==Mortal Kombat== and ==Double Dragon== and a surprisingly deep SF story under this rock 'em sock 'em action exterior.

Of particular note are the nods to future tech, like self driving cars, in home robotics and voice activated AI not to mention the titular biotech. These feel like it could happen 10 years from now...if not sooner. Not so much a cautionary tale as a feel of the inevitable rises over the preceedings.

I highly, highly recommend seeing this in the theaters and supporting good sci fi that was made on a modest budget. I've been waiting for this movie since I saw the original ==Robocop==, and I think if you like that film, you may want to give this a try. 9/10
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