Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Billy Wonka (A) on July 25, 2014 at 13:46:29

In Reply to: RE: "Lucy:" Scarlett Johansson stars in Luc Besson's latest sci-fi action film. Kinda. Actually, like in cuisine, posted by tinear on July 25, 2014 at 13:17:01

This movie is not at all as the trailer shows it. It is a mixed media confusion of effects and story lines told by a French director and shot like a Korean film. Sure, Scarlett looked really good but the jumping back and forth with CGI and animation in order to philosophize about our beginnings and ultimate potential was just too much for the film and the writer. This would have been a far better production if the sci fi-fantasy had been left out or if Chris Nolan had made the picture.

Min-sik Choi (THE Oldboy) played the drug kingpin attempting to distribute a newly synthesized drug that gives a "killer" high but is discovered (by Lucy) to have properties that slowly increase the brain's capacity to process. Lucy starts at 10% and ends up at 100%. Between Freeman lecturing on the brain and how it works, criminals chasing Lucy, and us meeting Lucy One, the film seems ponderous but entertanining.

I'm not displeased with what I saw but am disappointed by the over use of science fantasy, CGI, and things that just didn't need to be there. Besson is a great action director and there was some pretty good action but he borrowed heavily out of Nolan's playbook to make a movie that is slightly more pretentious than it needs to be.

Since there is no Scarlett t&a just wait for the disk unless you want to get out.