Lucy (2014)
Written and directed
by Luc Besson this film stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman and
Choi Min-sik. A young woman forced to be a drug mule gets an overdose
of a new drug that enhances her mental capacity so much as to
transcend her beyond being human.
Starting on dodgy
ground of the ten percent use of brain myth as science fiction the
plot does not make a huge amount of sense and does not really go
anywhere interesting. I found the film far too short to be proper
science fiction and far too silly to take seriously at any point, it
also does not help that the protagonist becomes so powerful the
action rarely makes sense. Scarlett Johansson no doubt gives the
performance Besson was after but spending half the film distracted
and not making eye contact was off putting to me.
2/5
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