Lucy

Lucy 

Rating 4 out of 10

When I saw the trailers for this movie several months ago I was intrigued.  I like Scarlett Johansson and the story looked interesting.  A woman in Asia with her loser boyfriend gets tricked into participating in a crazy drug deal.  When the really bad guys work on transporting the new drug into Europe they kidnap unsuspecting people and cut their stomach open and insert the drugs inside of them.  Resistance is dealt with very harshly. When the bag inside Lucy (Johansson) ruptures and starts releasing the drug in large doses into her body it comes with a crazy side effect.  It allows her to access the majority of her brain instead of the measly 10% we mortals use.  I know many mortals I'm sure use closer to 2% but that's another story.  Lucy begins to have special powers that allow her to do superhuman things.

That alone to me sounded like a movie with some promise.  Unfortunately it just made my head hurt. It's like taking your car to the shop for a tune up and a professor comes out and explains the internal workings of a combustable engine is great detail for two hours.  All I wanted was a tune up.

Director Luc Besson is know more for his huge flops than any good movies he has made.  The Professional in 1994 may be the last good movie he made.  I wonder how he keeps getting the keys to the car.  He has a good cast to work with here with the always good Morgan Freeman joining Scarlett.  He just makes a mess out of things.  He throws in goofy flashbacks that have little to do with what is going on and bounces around too much to make much sense.

I found this to be a waste of time where I was checking my watch ready to get out of the theater.  Rent if you must.