Misleading

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2018)

You'd think this was going to be an action flick, based on the trailers. It could have been, but it wasn't. This is especially odd since Luc Besson is usually pretty darn good at action flicks.
Instead, we get...something that wants to be a deep philosophical film about the nature of humanity but lacks pretty much everything necessary.
Scarlet Johanson does as well as can be expected given almost nothing to work with. Her work in the first half hour is great, but after that...not much you can do when your only direction is apparently, "You're no longer human, you're a computer. Think The Vision with less personality, that's what we're aiming for!"
Morgan Freeman is Morgan Freeman, used as exposition to give the audience the world-view necessary to make the plot work. It doesn't have to be true or scientific or proven; it's science fiction. The Force hasn't been proven and isn't based on solid science, but the Star Wars series is some pretty awesome sci-fi. Yet that first movie used a few lines of dialogue by Alec Guinness to set the stage; here we get Morgan Freeman pontificating and giving us far less than Obi-wan's explanation of The Force.
The main problem with the movie is it lacks any form of sense or internal cohesion. Okay, using more of our brain gives humans power. Not a bad premise for a sci-fi flick. A flick of her finger knocks a precinct of cops out, but she has to levitate Asian bad guys one by one.
And that's about it as far as action goes. The movie devolves into some sort philosophical art piece about the meaninglessness of being or something. There is literally no point to this movie. There's no plot resolution...or plot at all.
So, final opinion...if you're a Scarlet fan, watch it but don't expect a reprise of Natasha. Just don't expect a plot that makes sense or any sort of meaning for the couple hours you spend staring at the screen.