Two highly intelligent students are conducting their own project on the powers and possibilities of the human mind. Broke and saddled with student debts, they provide themselves with the necessary equipment by stealing it from the university. They do not realize that they are under observation by a very dark, very secret offshoot of the CIA, which longs to weaponize their discoveries...
Yet another science-fiction movie in which the work of well-meaning (well, more or less well-meaning) scientists gets coveted or hijacked by an evil authority with dark ambitions. Within the genre, it's an honest but unremarkable entry. It would be a much better movie if it did more showing and less telling, especially with regard to that whole mind control/telepathy thing.
While we're at it, this is yet another movie in which white dudes travel all the way to Asia in order to become enlightened. (It is a well-known fact that one cannot achieve authentic insight while staying in Boston, Antwerp or Stockholm.) People interested in religious questions will be glad to discover that a slight familiarity with Buddhist meditation gives one near-total control over one's mental processes, which translates as "Matrix"-like powers of creation or destruction.
I may be over-sensitive, but I got the impression that the movie contained a "bros before hos" message or, perhaps, a dismissive distrust against women scientists which was not entirely flattering to the female sex. Well, who needs more women in science ? It's not as if the world was enriched by people like Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie or Barbara McClintock...
Yet another science-fiction movie in which the work of well-meaning (well, more or less well-meaning) scientists gets coveted or hijacked by an evil authority with dark ambitions. Within the genre, it's an honest but unremarkable entry. It would be a much better movie if it did more showing and less telling, especially with regard to that whole mind control/telepathy thing.
While we're at it, this is yet another movie in which white dudes travel all the way to Asia in order to become enlightened. (It is a well-known fact that one cannot achieve authentic insight while staying in Boston, Antwerp or Stockholm.) People interested in religious questions will be glad to discover that a slight familiarity with Buddhist meditation gives one near-total control over one's mental processes, which translates as "Matrix"-like powers of creation or destruction.
I may be over-sensitive, but I got the impression that the movie contained a "bros before hos" message or, perhaps, a dismissive distrust against women scientists which was not entirely flattering to the female sex. Well, who needs more women in science ? It's not as if the world was enriched by people like Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie or Barbara McClintock...