Lucy
Released in 2014 under the direction of Luc Besson ("Leon the Professional," "The Fifth Element," "Taken") on a budget of $40 million with distribution through Universal Pictures; "Lucy" is Besson's recent sci-fi action thriller that dares to blend fast-paced action and the metaphysical aspect of evolving to the next stage of human evolution: godhood…only minus the Star Child.
Living abroad in Taiwan, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is pressured by her boyfriend Richard (Pilou Asbaek) to deliver a suitcase full of synthetic drugs to a drug cartel run by Kang (Choi Min-sik). To deliver the drug, a bag is placed inside her lower stomach and sewn up to transport, but she is intercepted and held prisoner by a rival gang, causing the bag to rupture and leak inside her body, boosting her cerebral capacity past the fictional 10% and allowing her to realize the wonders of the universe around her and allowing her to read minds, move things, collect data at an incredible rate. To help comprehend her growing condition, she calls upon the aid of Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman) and to help in recovering the other drugs being transported, she acquires the aid of French police officer Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked).
So…um…this movie has had quite a lot of high expectation lately. From all the twerps on Tumblr calling this movie "the only action movie with a woman without a love interest" to even the middle-age women on my Facebook contacts, this seemed to be one of the most anticipated movies of the summer…
Boy does it break my heart to say it's a let-down.
Not to say that it completely falls together, but it is a movie that will leave you feeling either disappointed, unsatisfied or angered by it's ending.
The cast is decent, though their characters range from one-dimensional to half-hearted performances. The action scenes grab your interest and when Lucy demonstrates her evolving powers, they are genuinely fascinating to watch. Such as locking onto cell phone signals from a car, hacking a television, radio, cell phone and computer to flash her image to talk to Morgan Freeman and calling someone over the phone and sending them pictures of drug mules without a computer is cool.
But the character arcs are unfulfilling, the story takes a downward spiral to pretension-ville by the end and it's explanation of science is pure nonsense. This movie expects you to believe that humans use 10% of their brain's capacity and by achieving 100%, we become omnipotent like God. Thing is, we DO use 100% of our brain, 55% is what we use to process thoughts and ideas, 45% of your brian controls the parts of your body you don't consciously think about, such as your heartbeat, digestive system, hair growth or breathing.
With that information, one has to wonder how much of Luc Besson's brain capacity went into writing this deeply flawed screenplay. The action scenes were impressive and so were Lucy's powers, but nothing else really warrants running out to see this brainfart.
Final Rating: 2/5
Living abroad in Taiwan, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is pressured by her boyfriend Richard (Pilou Asbaek) to deliver a suitcase full of synthetic drugs to a drug cartel run by Kang (Choi Min-sik). To deliver the drug, a bag is placed inside her lower stomach and sewn up to transport, but she is intercepted and held prisoner by a rival gang, causing the bag to rupture and leak inside her body, boosting her cerebral capacity past the fictional 10% and allowing her to realize the wonders of the universe around her and allowing her to read minds, move things, collect data at an incredible rate. To help comprehend her growing condition, she calls upon the aid of Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman) and to help in recovering the other drugs being transported, she acquires the aid of French police officer Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked).
So…um…this movie has had quite a lot of high expectation lately. From all the twerps on Tumblr calling this movie "the only action movie with a woman without a love interest" to even the middle-age women on my Facebook contacts, this seemed to be one of the most anticipated movies of the summer…
Boy does it break my heart to say it's a let-down.
Not to say that it completely falls together, but it is a movie that will leave you feeling either disappointed, unsatisfied or angered by it's ending.
The cast is decent, though their characters range from one-dimensional to half-hearted performances. The action scenes grab your interest and when Lucy demonstrates her evolving powers, they are genuinely fascinating to watch. Such as locking onto cell phone signals from a car, hacking a television, radio, cell phone and computer to flash her image to talk to Morgan Freeman and calling someone over the phone and sending them pictures of drug mules without a computer is cool.
But the character arcs are unfulfilling, the story takes a downward spiral to pretension-ville by the end and it's explanation of science is pure nonsense. This movie expects you to believe that humans use 10% of their brain's capacity and by achieving 100%, we become omnipotent like God. Thing is, we DO use 100% of our brain, 55% is what we use to process thoughts and ideas, 45% of your brian controls the parts of your body you don't consciously think about, such as your heartbeat, digestive system, hair growth or breathing.
With that information, one has to wonder how much of Luc Besson's brain capacity went into writing this deeply flawed screenplay. The action scenes were impressive and so were Lucy's powers, but nothing else really warrants running out to see this brainfart.
Final Rating: 2/5
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