Absolutely lame - **

A new release that took decades in the making, the most potentially funny cast you could ever assemble and a set-up that could send a nice message to the audience had been put to naught due to a couple of wrong decisions that this film made.

A council of superior aliens discovered the presence of earth and wanted to destroy it, but the law says that they can only destroy a planet if the inhabitants are not able to distinguish good and evil.  And so the council embarked on an experiment to prove this by randomly granting absolute power to a human, checking to see what the human will do given the power. They had randomly picked a British secondary school teacher Neil  Clarke in love with his neighbor Catherine and has a best friend of a dog named Dennis.

I was mainly interested in seeing the three main cast and probably getting a few laughs. I like Simon Pegg in Rogue Nation and was curious to see him sans Tom Cruise.  I miss Robin Williams and so just hearing him as Dennis the dog would make this film worthwhile I thought.  It has been a while since I've seen Kate Beckinsale do something relevant and was hoping that this would be it.  Well I did see/hear them but still is not worth it.  First of all, I was watching this film and thought this couldn't be new,  with the technology available now, editing and visuals shouldn't be very difficult.  It looked like an old comedy film with its texture and special effects that looked a little quirky.  So I was quick to ignore that and just focus on other things like story and characters and stuff but those too did not amount to much.  The characters the movie created were lame, except for Dennis the dog who was just basically being a dog.  Catherine is stuck in a job that doesn't want her and is quick to jump into bed after a few drinks,  Neil took a while to get the message and the hang of using his powers, and couldn't even smart up enough to save himself.

I was almost sure that this film had high hopes for humanity, but I guess the lack of it is what makes this film farcical.  It took a route concentrating more on the relationship of Neil and Catherine  and how one does not need powers to be lovable.  Not bad, but also not good.  I thought this film was a waste of a lot of potential and possibilities but then the production had a different kind of fun in mind.