Hahaha- Wait, this isn't a comedy.

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2015)

I am no science expert. I really am not. The extent of my scientific career thus far involved my internship at the U of A's chemistry lab. But even I know that nothing in this movie makes sense. The main argument against this viewpoint is that the movie is "supposed to be fun, not realistic". To that I will first say, thank the lord, because even its central premise (the idea that humans use only 10% of their brains) is a complete myth. But its inaccuracy is not (only) what made it a bad movie. There is no plot. The entire plot can be summed up in- Hot girl gets a drug, hot girl gets smart (an inaccuracy in of itself), Chinese gangsters try to kill her. Not only his, but the entire film discusses how dumb and oblivious we are, and how the filmmakers are smarter than us, even though there's a scientific inaccuracy EVERY TWO MINUTES! None of the actors are all that great, Johansen is there to be a pretty face, Morgan Freeman is there for a paycheck, and everyone else is just not noteworthy. The best part of this movie was laughing at when a character said, "The world's first woman was named Lucy", even though there is no concrete definition of a woman, "Lucy" was not a human nor the first hominid, instead one of the earliest discovered ones, and she was not named Lucy until she was discovered, because of a song playing while she was discovered (Lucy in the sky with diamonds). The only way this movie could be good is if it is viewed as a "so bad its good" flick. Oh, and the cinematography is slick at times. neither of those factors were any where new enough to redeem this movie.