Lucy with Scarlett Johannson (wholly crap)

the current existence of the impossible

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That's dumb. It's not an impossibility, it's simply something we don't fully understand yet.
That's like saying that flight was impossible, until we built an aircraft that could fly. It was always POSSIBLE, but it just wasn't discovered or understood.

Nvm not worth it.

Hoss_sl said:

What's to stop them from making another batch? Of all the things that bothered me in the movie, I think that bothered me the most.

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That applies to just about ANYTHING with a macguffin like this.
Limitless did the same thing. magic +smarter drug. Its pretty much never explained why his random friend had this stuff, why he was just causally using/selling it..
We never see the people in the lab that made it in the first place. or what THEY were doing with it.

And more in general. Scientists will only ever make 1 copy of macguffin. Never any prototypes. No plans for device on file. No paperwork, no math. nothing. its ALWAYS just in someones head.
If device is used or destroyed, its gone forever. even the scientist who didn't keep backups, will magically forget how to make it again.

so its hard to fault this movie for that. As really, they all do that same shit.

A lot of macguffins can be explained by just saying the +gooder device required a limited resource.

Wasn't the limitless explanation that the company went out of business shortly after developing it? So some guys in R&D probably made a quick buck.

No, the Limitless explanation was that there were horrible side effects from taking it and eventual death or perma-coma. Something like that.

It would have to be a limited resource or it wouldn't make for an entertaining superpower pill. It would just be vitamins if everyone had access to it, like antibiotics or high fructose corn syrup.

From the perspective of a 17th century russian serf, everyone alive in the west today is some kind of mutant Kryptonian superfreak.