Take an idiotic premise, and then inflate it to the nth degree

Rating: 2/10 (2 July 2020)

So there's this pseduo-science myth that we only use a tiny fraction of our brain capacity. This is based on the fact that only a certain percentage of the brain are actually the neurons that fire during active "thinking."
Think about your car, and that amount of power that the engine puts out. Now look at that equivalent space in the trunk. If only we could activate that unused potential in the trunk, right? If this movie was working with the equivalent of that flawed analogy, by the end of the movie they'd be utilizing all the potential in that empty space above the car, extending up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
I'm not someone that demands scientific purity, necessarily. I expect a certain amount of artistic license to be taken for the sake of a more entertaining experience, but they just keep piling on more and more absurdity to this flawed concept, with Morgan Freeman doing a banal voiceover narration of the complete nonsense as if his voice, alone, can overcome the fundamental stupidity that they keep doubling down on throughout the movie. The ridiculousness becomes more than one can take very quickly, and that point is reached way, way before they're done piling on more idiocy.