An insult to legitimately intelligent people...

Rating: 5/10 (13 February 2015)

Well, I'm not a genius, but on a great day, I can hit the "borderline" range (IQ 135, give or take).
This is one of the "dumbest" darn films I have ever had the displeasure of experiencing, and, of course, the irony is that it purports to demonstrate what would happen if individuals became more intelligent by using more of their brains. (Incidentally, we already use 100%, so the entire premise of this film is absurd.)
It's quite clear that whoever wrote this film has no understanding of intelligence or the human brain. We aren't superheroes waiting to happen. An IQ of 200 doesn't give us the ability to (literally) telepathically control other people (figuratively, perhaps, but many folks with IQs near 200 tend bar for a living) *or electrons*. An IQ of 400 won't make us telekinetic. An IQ of 1000 wouldn't suddenly permit us to dissolve into a sludge of matter that can somehow mesh with computing hardware (or time travel, incidentally--time travel isn't a real concept, nor is time, despite this film's simplistic notion that it's everything). (Forgive me if I have my "percentage brain used" vs. abilities mixed up--I simply couldn't care less, and it matters not.)
In sum, there is only this: what in the world were they "thinking?" The next time you write a script, *have an intelligent person read it before you market it to studios who only want to exploit people of average capability and below*. Please and thanks.
Smart people: avoid this film like the plague--if you must see a film regarding an ordinary man who uses a drug to become much smarter, see "Limitless." (That's right--"Lucy" isn't remotely original, either.)