Fun film - shame about the last 20 minutes

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2012)

This is a fun film to watch. Yes, even the basic premise is baloney (we only use 20% of our brains? Tripe!) and there are a fair few plot holes, but - hey - its a bit of sci-fi fluff not some dissertation.
But even so... what's with the ending? I mean the whole film is leading up to the great pavement pancake scene and then suddenly the story does a complete 180 degree turn. Suddenly a film whose main message was that taking a short-cut anywhere using drugs is, ultimately, a bad idea into positive peon of praise for the pharma industry - we really can solve all your problems with a few pills and a bit of tweaking.
What happened? Did the screenwriter and director die three-quarters of the way through? Did some big pharma company threaten to sue? The ending even betrays the story's own logic, leave alone anyone else's. Its the worst, most contrived, most stupid, most inappropriate, most illogical ending to a film since the first release of the Butterfly Effect. At least that director put that one right - no sign yet that they have see the light here.
So enjoy for the first 80 or so minutes, then gasp in wonder at how such an inane ending can be shamelessly bolted on for no good reason.