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"Lucy" (2014) REVIEW


If Lucy is proof of anything, it is that a movie, no matter how good the acting or visual effects are, is only as good as its script.

Unknowingly and unwillingly participating in a drug trafficking operation where the drugs are bagged and put inside the person's body, the bag Lucy holds within her is broken open, releasing a powerful drug which allows her to use more than 10% of her brain. She can analyze problems faster, perform telekinesis, can telepathically see around the world, and control electrical objects. However, when she realizes that without the rest of the drugs her body will not be able sustain itself, she sets out to find the other bags of drugs until she finally reaches 100%.

Roll credits. Seriously, the movie ends right when she reaches 100%. Though some may conclude this to be a film with an open ending, I believe Lucy to be an entirely incomplete movie throughout. Sub plots are started throughout the movie, but are never resolved or even touched base on after it is started. For example, a cop joins Lucy to find the drugs and he says after one action scene where Lucy easily killed everyone "I don't think I'm much help to you." To which she replies: "But you are. As a reminder." And then the subject is dropped for the rest of the movie. Never says for what the cop is a reminder for (of what it's like to be human) and the conversation is pointless because it is not referenced at all throughout the rest of the movie.

I'm not even going into the concept itself which is taken to the point of being extremely unbelievable to a sci-fi geek like me, and that problem also lies within the script. I think science fiction is supposed to be believable, either based on actual theories we currently use (Superhero movies) or completely ridiculous with its own scientific rules made clear to the audience (Doctor Who). Lucy tries to do both, but fails. It takes its own concept beyond belief (travelling through time and space with your mind?).

Though well acted and directed, Lucy falls flat with its incomplete story and, at times, rather corny dialogue.

1/5 Stars

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