Tried to be clever and deep, but failed

Rating: 4/10 (20 May 2015)

I was a little annoyed by the non-existing scientific "basis" this movie builds upon. It tried to be clever and scientific, but was really shallow. But hey, movies are there to break the boundaries of reality, right? So I tried to look past it and take a "what if?" approach. But even then, nothing was ever really explained or brought into context. So the movie lost me because of it's premise and story-telling. I'm not sure about the performances. I am personally not a fan of Scarlett Johannsson. I don't see the appeal in her, and I think her performance in this movie was especially sloppy. I am a big Morgan Freeman fan, but his role in this movie was so insignificant that it's hard to judge. A few plot holes and the fact that her powers are unspecific and kind of change all the time (e.g. in one scene she takes out an entire hallway of people at once and in the next scene she kind of just floats them away one by one) doesn't better my view on the movie. I think the movie tried to be very clever (especially the ending and things like the animal comparisons) but kind of failed. I really didn't enjoy this movie, but it is all in all watchable.