Art house? Luc Besson?

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2014)

Hard-core Luc Besson fans may be a little disappointed in not finding as much of his signature stylish mayhem as expected. Scarlett Johansson fans will not (be disappointed) because whatever she does, she invariably looks (and, even more so, sounds) sexy.
One critic goes as far as describing this movie as more art house than mainstream thriller. I wouldn't go so far. But there is such attempt at Sci-Fi that the action and violence sometimes do come across as an afterthought. The basic premise supporting the Sci-Fi seems sound: the vast untapped potentials of the human brain. But that is as far as it goes: basic. Don't try to probe any further or you are in for a huge disappointment.
As mentioned, Johansson is always the best. Morgan Freeman has had such a proliferation of the kind of role as in this movie that he can do this one while sleepwalking. CHOI Min-sik is terrific as the villain which, unfortunately, is entirely inconsequential insofar as this movie goes.