Lucy (Scarlett Johannson) gets caught up in a deal gone wrong and ends up as a drug mule for a new drug. The bag leaks inside her stomach and it unlocks her minds full potential and leaves he ready to take on her captors and get the ultimate revenge.
This film should have been great, it had such great potential and the story concept was brilliant, unfortunately for me it just didn't resonate on screen for me!! The action is great and Johannson is great stealing every scene, unfortunately she leaves everything else in the shadows including the storyline. The French Police Captain (Amr Waked) is a useless wet lettuce who blindly follows this random woman into a ridiculous battle for no apparent reason, when technically he probably should be arresting her!! Morgan Freeman's professor Norman adds no real value to the proceedings he just appears to be a narration to explain what is happening to Lucy (which in fairness helped me to understand what the heck was going on as at more than one point I had NO IDEA!!)
This has been raved about and many 'professional' critics think this is great. I have to disagree, although the story concept was clever it just didn't play out well enough for me. I spent most of the film waiting for the story to start and then the film ended... Oh!
Might have been a winner for most but not for me, over hyped and mostly a disappointment for me. Although gaining a growing love for Scarlett Johansson in the last year so that's something.
4/10
I never got around to seeing this. I wanted to be hyped for it, but I just couldn't. Seems very meh. Nice review!
ReplyDeleteIt could have been sooo good but it just failed on all counts!
Delete- Jenna
I went to see this one in the theater, I actually walked out early on because I couldn't stand it. Luc Besson's work can really be hit or miss, since he has done some good movies or at least entertaining ones (The Big Blue, The Fifth Element) and others are just okay (Léon: The Professional, which started out good but had a lot of wasted potential in the climax).
ReplyDeleteI'm not even sure I got more than twenty minutes in. Aside from being based entirely on a misconception that has been thoroughly debunked by actual scientists (the idea that we only use 10% of our brain is completely untrue) it wasn't a very well executed movie, plus it may have jumped into the action too quickly without offering much of an explanation for anything.
There wasn't a single explanation about anything that was happening, until Morgan Freeman came in and that's all he was useful for, so she could explain to him what was happening, so the audience would understand. ridiculous!
Delete- Jenna
I'll catch this soon, mostly for ScarJo, but I've heard similar comments from a lot of friends that this just didn't work as a whole. Great review, as always!
ReplyDelete"Useless wet lettuce" - love it!
ReplyDeleteHaha!! Thank you, totally true as well! :-)
Delete- Jenna
ScarJo was great, and I agree with your points here about her overshadowing everything. I was really excited for this one, but falls short in expectation. Great review!
ReplyDeleteThanks :-)
Delete- Jenna