M3GAN 2.0

"Final Destination: Bloodlines" was definitely not on my summer BINGO card to make an entry on McPherson's Movie Marquee. Equally unlikely, maybe even more so, was "M3GAN 2.0" and yet, like Trump's second presidency, here we are. The first M3GAN was fun, a female dancing Chucky but it wasn't much more. It did score an honourable mention the year it came out here on the Marquee. M3gan 2.0 is a complete and utter upgrade. In some ways, it's just Terminator 2, the girl version, minus the time travel. It's also self aware, like any evil A.I. is, and thus funny. You can tell that the people who made this film like films. There are nods to Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and a plethora of inside Steven Seagal references. It felt like an 80s action film, in the best possible way - Die Hard crawling through air vents, and a ridiculous sequence of building a robot in a lab like the A-Team. What's it all about? M3GAN has been weaponized by the military into Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno) but you know A.I., it always goes rogue, and goes evil. It's M3GAN Vs Amelia - the showdown of the summer. On Deadly Ground for sure! Download this upgrade in theatres now.