A Poor Man's "Transcendence"

Rating: 3/10 (11 October 2014)

You need to watch the trailer for this. It's rather exciting. But don't bother with the film. I won't spoil the movie (any more than Luc Besson already has)with any plot giveaways because there really wasn't one. A plot, that is. I kept waiting for the movie to start. Kept waiting, kept waiting, then I realized it was about to finish.
There is certainly a good idea lurking in here somewhere, but I couldn't find it, and neither could Monsieur Besson. Honestly, I was bored. There seems to be a real division in the reviews between loved it and hated it. The lovers, in my opinion, are far too easily pleased by shoot-outs and the notion of supernatural powers. And it was just a notion; there was no depth to anything.
Contrary to some other reviewers, I thought Scarlet Johansson was terrible. I assume the woeful overacting in the first few scenes was her paranoid attempt to make sure no one thought she couldn't act when she became the emotionless automaton for the rest of the movie. And Morgan Freeman ... WHAT were you thinking? It's a good job he had to look thoroughly bewildered most of the time. I think he was. It's a paycheck, I guess.
The ending ... uh ... yeah. Ripped-off echoes of "The Time Machine", and even the creeping black stuff looked like it was done by a first-year computer graphics student.
Monsieur Besson, please re-watch your classic "Leon". All movies with four-letter names beginning with L are not created equal.