An eerie, low-pitched buzzing sound fills the speakers as a tilted view of Earth from thousands of miles into space takes place on the screen. The camera...
To me, the most successful sci-fi focuses on concepts just out of our reach and plays them off as plausible. “Transcendence” starts out with this promise, but as the minutes tick by, the plot only grows more ridiculous, and the concepts become almost magical as opposed to scientific and technological.