Aside from the usual commercials - an actual review

Rating: 1/10 (14 November 2014)

Prepare for a review from someone who uses more that 1.0% of his/her brain capacity. Scary? It should not be so. This movie, while being based on an interesting theory claiming that humans do not use more than 10% of their "brain powers" caters to the usual, common audience that hardly uses 0.001% of the thinking power given to them. First of all, I do like Luc Besson and Scarlett Johansson, so I have nothing "personal" against them. I DO hate all those endless close-ups of Morgan Freeman. All he does is this: he speaks decent English SLOWLY while keeping a serious face. All of his roles are like this. The idea behind this movie? Is there one? Aside from a metric tonne of rather inexpensive SFX, there is this poorly hidden ILLEGAL DRUG PROMOTION that is intended to make one think the following: "IF ONE OVERDOSES ONESELF ON SOME UNKNOWN, OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL BUT PROMISING-NAMED SUBSTANCE, THEN ONE MIGHT JUST AS WELL ACHIEVE SOMETHING LIKE GOD'S POWERS OVER EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE". As far as anyone who is NOT ALWAYS on drugs thinks, this is the idea that is being promoted by this movie. Really, unless you are an uneducated junkie or an underage fan of a cheap movie visual SFX, then you might probably figure out that no matter how much of your brain capacity you manage to control, it would still NOT make you a god of some sort, it would NOT make you capable of controlling anything else short of your own ability to memorize, analyze, and learn. THIS IS IT. The rest is nonsense. Unless you start abusing illegal drugs and find yourself being capable of controlling the court, the jury, the law, the space-time continuum, it all ends when the drugs are out of your system and you are in jail. So, in short, just SAY NO TO DRUGS AND TO THIS MOVIE!