
summary of this hero flick starring the sultry Scarlet Johansson. Here goes...
If you've seen Morgan Freeman narrate
anything on Discovery Channel, you have already seen this movie!
Lucy is one of those movies that leaves
you seated with a blank stare of bewilderment as the final credits
scroll. It also triggers an involuntary response to check time as
the movie seemed to end just as quickly as it started. In fact, the
movie actually opens with Lucy and her new boyfriend of just a week
standing outside an office building arguing over who was going to
take locked briefcase to her boyfriend's contact inside. There is no
explanation other than a hard night of partying to address how the
two characters came to arrive at this high-risk delivery and there
initially is no details of the contents of the briefcase. Within
minutes, Richard pulls a punk move and handcuffs the case to Lucy's
wrist and thus begins her journey to superpowers and using 100% of
her brain capacity.
As the story quickly develops, we learn
that the contents of the briefcase contains a synthetic drug with
interesting side effects. So when it is later decided that Lucy
would be forced to transport the drugs out of the country by having
them surgically implanted in her abdomen, it doesn't take a rocket
scientist to figure out what will eventually happen.
Lucy takes not time to get to the good
stuff. Almost as soon as the drugs are released into her
bloodstream, she immediately becomes aware of her new found
abilities. She quickly escapes captivity and starts working on a
solution to her problem all while embracing her advanced use of her
brain. Fortunately for her there is a solution out there in the form
of Morgan Freeman's Professor Norman.

Ultimately, my baby momma from an
alternate universe delivers a decent performance and definitely looks
good on screen. In fact, she appears to be more fit as Lucy than she
was as Black Widow in Avengers. My only gripe about her character
was her lack of emotion and the flat voice tone she spoke with. Is
that what happens when you use more than 10% of your brain? That is
one of the questions I had while staring at the credits!
Freeman also delivered as I expected.
In fact, I'm starting to think Morgan Freeman has been playing the
same character since 1995. Thanks to his narration, it did feel as
though I was watching a 1 hour special on Discovery Channel.
Fortunately for Morgan Freeman, I actually like watching his shows
about how the universe was formed or extraterrestrial life; I'm just
not sure of the rest of the moviegoers will appreciate it.
One element of the screenplay that
pulled me in was the frequent updates on what percentage of access
to her brain Lucy has. This eventually adds the necessary tension to
the movie as I was left anticipating the next major event that
Professor Norman hypothesized and like clockwork, something would
happen that included some major action piece or visual effect.
Unfortunately, this formula was not without flaws. One such flaw was
a car chase scene.
Most all action movies nowadays include
at least one chase scene. Lucy was no different and executed it
effectively as cars flipped, exploded, and tumbled on screen. The
only problem was that her ass wasn't being chased, nor was she
chasing anybody. She was simply trying to get from point A to B
quickly. So as I sat starring at the credits, my next question was,
“she had already demonstrated the ability to move objects, why did
she feel the need to demolish cars left and right when all she had to
do was slide them out of the way with her mind?”
Finally, I will fast forward to the
cliffhanger moment of the movie – what happens when she reaches
100% access to her brain? Well, lets just say, she didn't go the
route of Dr. Manhattan of The Watchmen, but she kind of did. She
also didn't go the way of Johnny Depp in Transcendence, but she kind
of did. Finally, she didn't pull a Neo in the Matrix, but she kind
of did. In fact, lets just say, it was a mash-up of all three but it
kind of wasn't.
I would like to call her final state
NeoManSendence.
By the time she hit 90% it was somewhat
obvious what would happen in the end. Additionally, there is an
early movie reference that hints at what we could expect. It is
actually so significant that I won't mention it in this review as it
will probably spoil the movie. The problem I had with the final
outcome is, the hint was so deliberate that I had to ride out the
last hour of the flick pretending like I didn't figure it out!
Question number three as I started at
the credits...”how dumb did the writers think we were?”
As much as I love me some ScarJo, her
star power and gorgeous looks just didn't save this film. Lucy is a
clear attempt to give us more Black Widow until we actually get the
real Black Widow in Avengers 2. Sadly, it fall just short of summer
blockbuster and is best watched during the matinee hours at your
local theater.
Her are my final thoughts on Lucy:
- That kick drum was sick! I have got to sample that and use it in a rap beat!
- Scarlett looks better as a blonde, but red is where it is at with her! Avengers 2 can't get here fast enough.
- So if, humans ever had full control of their brains and eventually lost the ability to do so via evolution, where are the super beings? Hmm...is this a subtle hint that religions were based on these super humans??? Hmmmmm...
- If this movie was made 10 years ago, how would you explain storing all that data on a Zip Disk? If it were made 15 years ago, how did all that get stored on a Floppy...and God forbid that movie was made 25 years ago, how many Scantron sheets would it have required!
-J
Disclaimer: Steve is an employee of Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner, however the views expressed in this post are of my own.
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