Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Main Players: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-Sik Choi
General Gist: A woman is kidnapped and by happenstance, ends up injected with a drug that allows her brain to function at a higher percentage than imaginable.
Deb's Take:
I loved the concept of this movie. That fact that we as humans use only up to 7-10% of our cerebral cortex is really quite unfathomable. Also, the fact that we haven't learned, evolved, captured...the ability to use more of our brain is mind boggling. This movie idea had so much potential. Predicting what would happen if humans had the capability to tap into a higher brain potential is intriguing. This movie did lay a different idea out there. I got the concept, and was interested in the theory, I just feel like the movie wasn't great at it's presentation of the idea. Hollywood kind of got in the way of this one for me. The movie played a good spin on brain power, but I wish the action, gun fighting, drug dealers wasn't part of the movie. I think Scarlett Johansson did well. I liked her character, and I feel like she captured the personality that the story was setting. I just didn't feel like the movie tied everything together well. Morgan Freeman's role could have been much more played out, and I also feel like the movie sort of balked the ending. Here's a nice little present with a bow...we are done here. I just wasn't impressed, but I really wanted to be, so rent it...it will give you something to speculate.
Deb's Rate: Rent It
Tiff's Take:
Yeah, I agree. This movie had a lot of potential. The concept could have turned into a great movie, like Inception, that really made you think about, well, thinking. But it really fell short. One issue with this kind of movie is that if it's not done right it can be really confusion and hard to wrap your, apparently, underutilized brain around. This one had a little bit of that going on. And it got a little too philosophical for my liking. And not because I don't like philosophical but because it didn't fit well with the rest of the movie.
The acting was okay for me. I usually really like Scarlett Johansson and I think she did great with what she was supposed to portray but I guess I just didn't really like her character. It was sort of uninteresting. The French policeman was sort of a weird addition and Morgan Freeman was boring for me as well.
What could have been a lot better movie was just sort of blah.
Tiff's Rate: Rent It
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