Never designed to be a movie

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2015)

The whole concept behind this movie whilst intriguing is not only scientifically flawed by quite some measure, but it's also quite a simple idea that never really should have tried to make a movie out of. It may have been suitable for a TV show or a short film, but the whole movie feels like it's just stretching one concept out over the course of 90 minutes, but at no stage really developing.
I'm no means a scientist and yet even I know how flawed some of the stats and figures are that are quoted in the movie and subsequently, the logical side of me couldn't enjoy this wild, sci-fi fantasy. It needed more science to support their fiction rather than this horrible concoction, that the whole time gave me the feeling like this was written by a child who read one neurology article and then let their imagination run wild.
The acting wasn't exceptional either, but it wasn't written in such a way that really allowed any actors to really shine anyway. This is unlike Morgan Freeman, who for a while was a strong indicator of a solid movie, to me. Sadly though, this is the second movie in as many years that I feel has fallen short of the reputation he had begun to build for himself.
As a whole, this movie annoyed me a lot more than it entertained me. The concept is undeniably quite cool, and some of the things the main character were able to do were also quite entertaining, but brief flashes didn't make up for a lacking storyline, and flaws in the scientific theory.