This movie is a mockery of human knowledge, intelligence, and understanding.

Rating: 2/10 (6 September 2014)

From beginning to end, this movie was absolutely ridiculous. Even before I watched the movie, I knew it was going to be a horrible movie, but I decided I'd do it because some of you guys would probably be interested in a review, so here it is. The fundamental idea at its most basic level can bring forth a very interesting concept, such as what the movie Limitless did. What I saw in this movie was an infinitely worse version of Limitless. Luc Besson, the writer and director, took this very simple concept, and not only did he try, unsuccessfully to overcomplicate it to sound smart, but he tried to use a trick on the audience, by introducing a few sciency sounding terms and keeping the viewers interested by their, ironically, lack of knowledge. The path he chose the movie to take, from the fundamental concept, made the whole idea absolutely, and hilariously, absurd. Firstly, the "fact" that humans only use 10% of their brain's capacity is a myth. We use 100% of our brain's capacity, just at different times, for different actions. Secondly, the idea that humans, or anything, for that matter, are able to control things that are physically unreachable on a subatomic level, such as time, is just stupid. And for any questions regarding time travel: time travel doesn't work with simply "moving" time. You bend spacetime to reach a different destination. You're bending particles with energy; not magically leaping through time. This movie completely disregarded any and every basic law of physics. Moving on to the acting, it was the best acting I've ever seen in my life not really. The acting was actually very bad. I didn't expect much from Scarlett Johansson, and I got even less from her. Since she was basically the only important of the movie, I'd say the general acting was bad as well, seeing as no one else had any significant roles, except for Morgan Freeman, whom didn't have many lines either. The metaphors were completely unsubtle, and pretty much threw themselves at the audience's faces and screamed "WE'RE METAPHORS." Also, I'd like to point out that it's literally impossible to portray a character infinitely more knowledgeable in a movie, seeing as the "research" put into said movie would come from other sources. So, unless the writer would be the Nikola Tesla of our time, it'd just be a poor attempt, and excuse, for a movie introducing a "new concept" which is revolutionary. It's predictable down to the last detail. I'm not even kidding. It's an extremely predictable movie. The director/writer is, from what I gather, not a very intelligent man, and movies like these should be left to people who: a) are intelligent, and b) actually know what they're doing. This movie was just a mockery of human intelligence and understanding as a whole, not to mention and indirect mockery of anyone who thinks it's good.