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ReportA 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.
This movie contains 37 potentially triggering events.
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Does a major character die?
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TylerScranton
Nearly every major character
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Does a woman get slapped?
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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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Abandonment
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Is someone stalked?
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Multiple instances of surveillance, characters keeping track of others in ways legal and not.
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Is there domestic violence?
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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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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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JacobStaten
It's actually a major plot point.
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Addiction
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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
Is someone drugged?
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The main character attempts suicide by taking an excess of medication.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Surgery, close-up of scalpel cutting into skin.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Lephiro
Character stabs knife through hand into table.
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Are there dislocations?
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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 throat mutilation?
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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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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Strangulation.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 stabbed?
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Lephiro
In the bar bathroom scene a character takes a knife in the shoulder.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone die?
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CandyConfecti
SEVERAL characters die.
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Disability
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
Are there ghosts?
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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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Is someone possessed?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Sort of - through technology, not something paranormal.
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Gross
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+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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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
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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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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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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alonelylion
Grey attempts suicide by drug overdose, but survives. Later, he stabs himself in the hand.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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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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ptsdean
A couple attempted suicides.
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Noxious
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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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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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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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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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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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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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There is some kissing, but that's it.
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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
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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
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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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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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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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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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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