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A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Lephiro
It doesn't kill her, but Stem(through Grey) chokes her neck for a bit. Attempting/threatening to asphyxiate her.
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At the end of the movie, Grey losers complete control of his body without realizing it. He is trapped within his own mind living an alternate reality, but believes it is real
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At the end of the movie, Grey losers complete control of his body without realizing it. He is trapped within his own mind living an alternate reality, but believes it is real
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Does someone overdose?
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CandyConfecti
Main character attempts to overdose
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TylerScranton
Someone is tortured using a small, sharp knife.
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone stalked?
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Quiet_Wyatt
Multiple instances of surveillance, characters keeping track of others in ways legal and not.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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TylerScranton
A woman is shot and killed at the beginning of the movie, and there is a very one-sided fight with a woman at the end, ending with her being shot.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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JacobStaten
It's actually a major plot point.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Quiet_Wyatt
A hacker works in a squat for virtual reality addicts.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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TylerScranton
There is light alcohol use in the movie, but not heavy and does not appearing to be abusive.
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Are there bugs?
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There aren't really bugs in it, but STEM looks like a centipede in the few scenes it appears in, and Grey calls it a bug when he first sees it. If you're really freaked out by bugs just watch out for when it's on screen I guess.
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Assault
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Is someone drugged?
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The main character attempts suicide by taking an excess of medication.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Breanna
Not necessarily mutilation - a character (many are augmented/teched out) uses an implement from his finger to poke a dead character's eye to see his memories.
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Is someone tortured?
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Lephiro
In the bar bathroom scene a man's face is lacerated to a great degree. This is shown off screen as the action happens and the sounds of his suffering are heard. The damage is shown after.
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Is there body horror?
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Lephiro
A man's head is severed almost in half from front to back with the knife horizontal across the jaw hinge. Opens the jaw up like a snake. First guy Grey hunts down.
A head is blown off in the rooftop chase scene: disappears in a quick cloud of gore.
A head is blown off in the rooftop chase scene: disappears in a quick cloud of gore.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Lephiro
A man's jaw is severed nearly from his skull by knife from behind. I know it doesn't affect the teeth directly, but you will certainly SEE ALL his teeth as his mouth gets opened wide like a snake's unhinged jaw.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Breanna
A head doesn't necessarily get squashed as in pressed together or down, BUT a head does get blown off, and rather graphically too.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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TylerScranton
A characters face and neck are heavily cut in one scene. In another, a character is cut deeply though the mouth.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Surgery, close-up of scalpel cutting into skin.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Strangulation.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Lephiro
Character stabs knife through hand into table.
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Is someone choked?
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TylerScranton
A choking scene towards the end. Character survives the choking, but is killed by another method.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Lephiro
In the bar bathroom scene a character takes a knife in the shoulder.
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Are there dislocations?
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TylerScranton
A mans arm is broken and bent backwards in a very unnatural way, and then shot in the head.
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Is there decapitation?
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CandyConfecti
Someone's head gets blown COMPLETELY off by a shotgun.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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TylerScranton
There are advanced AIs throughout the movie. There is one controlling a car which is overriden, and then crashed. May be triggering for some.
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Does a major character die?
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TylerScranton
Nearly every major character
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Does someone die?
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CandyConfecti
SEVERAL characters die.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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The main character is paralyzed early on in the movie and is later made able to walk again. He is played by an able bodied actor.
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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ptsdean
Sort of? A character is unable to control their body while it does things, so some elements of kidnapping.
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Sort of - through technology, not something paranormal.
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Are there ghosts?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but at one point or two, an unprepared viewer might think there is, in that someone dead appears to show up (fully visible and solid-looking, in daylight, behaving naturally).
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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TylerScranton
A few city bridge crossings
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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Breanna
Twice. The main character vomits twice. You can see it and hear it.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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TylerScranton
One of the main characters is a cop, and she seems friendly and empathetic to the case, but mostly useless in actually solving anything.
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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TylerScranton
One minor character discusses their gender identity, but it is done in passing, and respectfully. They do hint that others may have said harsh things to them before.
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Medical
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Is electro-therapy used?
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TylerScranton
A character is tased, affecting his computer implants. Not quite ECT, but a potential trigger.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Someone is a quadriplegic - I personally have a somewhat claustrophobic reaction to that.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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TylerScranton
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The main character slowly loses control of his own body. Could be viewed as a mental illness to some
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The main character slowly loses control of his own body. Could be viewed as a mental illness to some
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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alonelylion
Grey attempts suicide by drug overdose, but survives. Later, he stabs himself in the hand.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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ptsdean
A couple attempted suicides.
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Noxious
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Is there screaming?
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Lephiro
Yes, especially when the last man is tortured in the bar bathroom as his face is being lacerated off screen.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Breanna
In the scenes where it's shown a character is taking over another character to aid them, the shakey cam personifies/shows this during. It's evident during quite a few scenes, and lasts sometimes for more than 2 minutes. Those with motion sickness might not want to watch this movie.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Breanna
Jaime, a character in the movie, is non-binary or ambiguously gendered. It's gently mentioned when they ask the main protagonist to don't ask about their gender," to which the protag says "Wasn't gonna."
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Does the black guy die first?
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there is only two characters of color, and they both die graphically
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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ptsdean
Disabled character says some self-deprecating things and views himself poorly, but there are no outside comments.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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JacobStaten
There is some kissing, but that's it.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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TylerScranton
A scene take place in a secluded city area with many tents, suggesting an unhoused community, but there is no further interaction or discussion.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Breanna
Spoilers/Movie End ahead.
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At the end, the main antagonist is revealed and he manipulates the main character's mind so that he thinks he's imagining everything and has a better reality than what is happening in real life, thus letting the antagonist take over completely and do as he pleases.
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At the end, the main antagonist is revealed and he manipulates the main character's mind so that he thinks he's imagining everything and has a better reality than what is happening in real life, thus letting the antagonist take over completely and do as he pleases.
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Vehicular
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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TylerScranton
A car crash at the beginning of the movie, and a brief car chase at the end, also included a crash. Several cars throughoit and seen taking off with squealing tires.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Breanna
There is no actual person outside of a car or any other vehicle, getting hit by a car or vehicle.
There are car crashes, there are no pedestrians getting hit by cars.
There are car crashes, there are no pedestrians getting hit by cars.
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Does a car crash?
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Breanna
There are two car crashes - one in the beginning that sets the whole movie's plot in motion, and another in a high speed car chase, BUT no one is seriously injured OR killed in both of these.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
68 supporters
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TylerScranton
VERY graphic. Includes violent deaths, as well as a surgery/ autopsy scene.
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Is there gun violence?
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TylerScranton
Several characters have powerful firearms built into their bodies and are used with very graphic results.
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