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OUT 31 AUGUST / CERT 15 / 100 mins Director Leigh Whannell Cast Logan Marshall-green, Harrison Gilbertson, Betty Gabriel

AFTER BEING Crippled in an attack (during which his wife is killed), grumpy near-future technophobe Grey Trace (Marshall-green) is forced to accept Ai into his life when he’s offered the chance to walk again (and more) via an implanted, super-smart chip called Stem. He’s able to dish out some rough justice to those who wronged him, but he’s soon worried that it might not be an equal partnership between man and microchip. director Leigh Whannell offers up a genre stew that, while it features some overly familiar ingredients (and a story that heads in expected directions), has some fun ideas and all the gory thrills you might want in a Black Mirrormeets-cronenberg fashion.