Transcendence

Given its title, the least one might hope for The Dark Knight DoP Wally Pfister’s directorial debut is that it’s, you know, transcendent. Alas, this ham-pfisted cautionary tale remains stubbornly earthbound, even when Johnny Depp’s murdered scientist turned omnipotent computer uploads his personality to a human host so that his mournful widow (Rebecca Hall) can have a warm body to snuggle up…