the plot holes are bigger than the plot!

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2013)

I actually thought this was a fun drug movie in a lot of ways. The zooming camera work was amazing and the acting was pretty good too. However it must be noted that the plot is utterly incomprehensible!!! I don't think the director or screenwriter or anyone else could explain it if they tried. I'm wondering whether the plot was made like this on purpose in order to make it feel trippy. So to make the audience feel that they themselves are going crazy on drugs!
OK, so here's just a few of the enormous gaping holes: 1. Cops grab a suspicious guy at a murder scene and don't pat him down or search him. wtf?! 2. Protagonist borrows $100 000 despite the fact he can make this much in two days. He then forgets to pay the loan back despite being super smart. wtf?!. 3. Girl gets inexplicably murdered while protagonist inexplicably blanks out. Does this play any role in the story? Nope. Do we find out why? Nope. Or who? Nope. 4. Where did the smart pills come from? How come there isn't a bunch of super smart guys connected to the original lab?
I could go on and on but the holes are so big it's hard to define them! It feels like the individual scenes were inserted they way they are because somebody thought they were good individual scenes. The scenes feature the same characters but they feel like they are from slightly different movies!
The other thing that needs a mention is the seriously backwards moral message in this film. The guy gets super smart and what does he do? He amasses money and drugs and runs for president. He pays lawyers to cover up his involvement in various murders. When you think about it the movie telling us that "being smart means being a scumbag".