Meh

Rating: 4/10 (9 October 2015)

Pompous "Sci-Fi" thriller that tries to present itself as something smart and based on facts and scientific theories (hey, it has MORGAN FREEMAN lecturing, so it MUST be smart and true!). In actuality, it's really silly movie, completely fabricated and hardly original. It's a mix between movies like "Lawnmower Man", "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" and you'll have to put your brains in complete neutral and fully trust your suspension of disbelief.
This movie could have been a lot more enjoyable if it DIDN'T try to present itself and something smart and based on facts. It would have worked a lot better as a fabricated Sci-Fi that doesn't take itself seriously.
I was surprised to (re-)discover that it's made by Luc Besson, since I expected a lot more originality and sophistication from him - and there's hardly any of either in this movie.
Part of its "sophistication" is using Asian location and cast. Wait, they are in Taiwan but they all speak Korean?! Min-sik Choi ("Oldboy") is good as usual, but he's capable of much more.
Question: 1. Any reason to use an Egyptian actor as a French cop? 2. Any reason movies still show mobiles that are non-smartphones? I haven't seen people using these phones in the last 5 years but movies keep showing them for some reason.
Did I mention the SHAMELESS product placement for Samsung? It's EVERYWHERE: Mobiles, TVs, cameras, printers. Every product in the movie is by Samsung.
The ending feels like a B-movie.