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| ProdID: 6167 - LucyDirected byLuc Besson | Product Score: 5.3 |
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When a boyfriend tricks Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) into delivering a briefcase to a supposed business contact, the once-carefree student is abducted by thugs who intend to turn her into a drug mule. She is surgically implanted with a package containing a powerful chemical, but it leaks into her system, giving her superhuman abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy. With her former captors in pursuit, Lucy seeks out a neurologist (Morgan Freeman), who she hopes will be able to help her. |
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'Life was given to us a million years ago and now you know what to do with it'. This is the end sentence used in this movie and I assuming the movie was suppose to give you some sort of answer but both my husband and I must of missed it. Like the movie we were both a little lost. It started off great and then it just detoured and went somewhere completely different. Apparently according to this movie we only use ten percent of our brain. If you overdose on a new drug you get to experience what it is like to use one hundred percent. In short you become god and you can control everything and everyone including gravity. I guess the pretense is there for a good movie but all and all I would say no missed the target by a planet. Visually there is some amazing scenes and as she explores herself and her surroundings and manipulates time it is great but story wise its just silly. I could not relate to Lucy she was not extremely likeable and to be honest did not care what happened to her as the movie progressed. The 'kiss' with the police detective was so uncalled for and absolutely cringe worthy but a lot of the movie was. But the airplane scene was fantastic until she looked like a horse chomping at the bit. Really a bad drug movie trying to be clever. If I had a choice I would of skipped this movie as it really goes no where fast. Why do people always leave the bad dudes alive you know they are going to come find you eventually. Like I said a silly movie expected so much more considering everyone was talking about it when it first came out. |
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The idea behind this film was intriguing. The idea of being able to unlock more than 10% of the brain at once. But unfortunately my knowledge of biology ruined this for me quite quickly afterwards. Do you want to know why this film makes no sense? [spoiler]The idea that 90% of our brain cells are "dark", "unused", and "unknown" is flagrantly incorrect. We only use 10% of our brain AT THE SAME TIME. We use the entirety of our brain, just during different things. For example 'Remembering' uses a different portion of our brain to the part that makes us breathe, which is in turn different to the parts that allow our limbs to move. "Unlocking 100% of our brains would only allow us to do everything that we already do simultaneously. [/spoiler] So Biology did ruin the film for me right from the start, but ignoring that part, the film started rather well. Ignoring the inserted "animal documentary" metaphors (which were rather unconventional, but moreso distracting), the film took little time to fully throw you into the plot of the film. Slowly ratcheting up higher percentage of brain "capacity", the film accelerates as the female lead seeks to find a purpose with total knowledge. I enjoyed the action parts of the film, and I found the ideas of what a heightened mind could achieve to be rather enjoyable to watch. Unfortunately, ideas appeared to peak rather quickly, and soon the "powers" became difficult to understand. There were many inconsistencies that were also kind of irritating, and we never really got to delve deeply into what was able to be achieved. Visually, it was exquisite. With the exception of the initial scenes which looked great, until I noticed the "gravity" of the situation [spoiler]It's a pun! when first chained up after being captured, she appears to levitate around the room, which looks great, but you can see which way up the shot was filmed, by observing the way in which the chain hangs "down"[/spoiler] Overall, I was disappointed in this film. It started off with a curious idea, and had some exciting scenes, but in the end it achieved very little. Morgan Freeman's character was rather obsolete, beyond being a sounding board for Scarlett (who could just as easy used a brick wall). It had my interest until about "70-80%", at which point it just became far too obscure to bother trying to follow. |
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