Braindead popcorn entertainment

Rating: 7/10 (23 November 2014)

Maybe it's ironic that to enjoy a film about using 100% of your brain capacity you best turn it almost completely off. Johansson plays a woman who gets forced to smuggle a kilo of CPH4 (a new drug) in her stomach, but it rips open and she gets a overdose which gives her the ability to gradually use more of her brain capacity. It all sounds plausible up to here but then it goes completely of the rails. I won't mention the things she can do with her mind in this film, but let's just say that they are not very realistic or scientifically sound. It's all just very silly and ridiculous and you have to just go with it. The film was very successful in the cinemas, my guess is because it's a very international film. There are Americans, Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Koreans and China-men in it. Everybody likes to see themselves in a movie right? The film most resembles a scifi version of the Transporter films which Besson also produced. You could say Chris Nolan makes Scifi with a capital S and Besson scifi with a small s. It's not bad but don't don't think about it to much, it's just popcorn cinema.