Oh, the lost opportunities...

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 2011)

Good premise, decent characters, an enjoyable movie, sloppy plot holes and a script that loses itself somewhere along the way. But ah well, you all knew this.
Why is it that every time a movie is made with the theme 'average guy suddenly becomes extraordinary' and I'm like 'that would be sooo cool', the script consummates his powers in the most cliché-like and uncreative scenarios? He might be super-smart, all-powerful, able to read other's minds, a superhero etc. or can get some strange tool like a universal remote control or an invisibility cloak or WHATEVER... but what does he do?- he uses all this to pick up chicks and resolve his petty household issues. This is the 'Bruce Almighty syndrome'- the guy was literally ALLMIGHTY and he used his powers to become a local TV celebrity and to enlarge his girlfriend's boobs.
In this particular case, the situation is somewhat better; yet still. Is playing the stock-market and running for senator really the best thing one with a limitless mind can do? How about SCIENCE? I mean it's the first thing on one's mind as far as super-smart is concerned. Wasn't this guy interested in giving the 'Millenium Prize Problems' or the 'Theory of everything' a shot? How about trying to cure cancer or AIDS? When you literally have one of the greatest intellects in history you just shouldn't waste your time on being a goddamn senator... I just find it surprising the script doesn't even think of such a possibility instead focuses on the guy impressing some chick in a club by speaking French. You don't need a limitless mind for that.