Swing and a miss

Rating: 3/10 (30 July 2014)

**This discusses several events within the movie, some of which may be considered spoilers**
Let me begin by praising the high quality visual effects, music, and acting of this movie. Also, I have to believe that the movie did serve its intended purpose (sort of), as it began a discussion between my wife and I that lasted almost as long as the movie did. Though it was a think piece, and a conversation starter, I doubt very much if it intended to become the genesis of nearly an hour and a half criticism of itself.
We each had opinions, which varied almost as much as we do as people (she and I are nearly opposites on most subjects). But to save time and space, I'll combine both sets, and limit the number actual drawbacks we discussed.
So for starters, I'll begin with morality. Increasing ones potential, would intensify their personality, deepen their emotions, and solidify their sense of right and wrong, not nullify it. This looked like that is what happened, as indicated by her treatment of her friend, and the phone call she made to her mom. (Very emotional and seeming loving.) Then, in contrast, the point of all the horrific murders, (unless it was just to fill time so the movie could be 90 minutes long), seemed to be to underscore just how evil the main bad guy is, so when she chose not to kill him, (or any of the other people that were trying to kill her), it seemed to indicate her own respect for human life. But then she endangered many lives in her car chase, and she couldn't be bothered to protect those who were trying to protect her as she gave instruction to mankind.
If she were as powerful as she was being portrayed in her Lucy to Lucy moment, (lampooning Michelangelo thoroughly), multitasking would have been as easy as breathing. The attackers could have turned on each other, fallen asleep, transformed into flowers, or been dispatched in an infinite variety of fatal or harmless ways. On the other hand, if becoming all powerful bleeds away all humanity, as was suggested by the film, and human kind becomes less interesting than a colony of ants in the grass, why bother trying to educate them?
The nature of the universe, quantum scientists, and micro biologists will reveal that underlying all life and matter, is information. If you're gonna go there in a movie, then why not ask the question... Where does the information come from?
The overall and greater complaint, making the rest of this seem academic, is the end of the movie. I guess they just couldn't figure out how to end it. Even the movie Blazing Saddles, which has one of the worst movie endings of all time, ended better than this movie did.
I gave this movie 3 out of 10. It wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it had the potential to be so much more. You might even say it was about %10 of what it could have been. ;D