I love Scarlett Johansson. I also love “I Love Lucy.” But I didn’t really love Scarlett Johansson as ‘Lucy’ in the new film “Lucy.”
As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, I didn’t really like “I love Lucy” all that much. But I still do love Scarlett Johansson. I just didn’t love her as ‘Lucy’ in “Lucy.”
So to set the record straight, I don’t really love “I Love Lucy” or the new film “Lucy,” but I really do love the star of the film “Lucy,” Scarlett Johansson. (just not as ‘Lucy.’)
Good. Now that we’ve got that all straight, let’s review the new film, “Lucy.”
The writer and director of this film is Luc Besson. He’s had himself a pretty darn good career in Hollywood. He has written screenplays for the ok films “Taken 2,” “Brick Mansions,” and “The Family” along with writing and directing the very good film “The Fifth Element” and the excellent film “Leon: The Professional.”
Safe to say this man has had a long career in the business of show. He must be doing something right.
With the movie “Lucy,” Besson pens a story about a young lady who is taken hostage and turned into a drug mule for an Asian crime family. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is drugged and operated on so the bad guys can hide the illegal narcotics inside her, and then she is forced to deliver these narcotics to some other bad guys. Then, and only then she can go free.
What the bad guys didn’t expect was that these drugs were going to open up inside her, get into her bloodstream and turn her into the smartest human in the world.
Anyhoo, she quickly finds out that these drugs are the key to unlock all of humanities most complex questions, from “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” to “Are we alone in the universe?” to everything in between.
You see, these drugs make you use all 100% of your brain. (The film has you believe that we only use roughly 5 to 10% of our brain… which is a lie, but I’ll get back to that later.)
Once Lucy figures out that she’s the smartest person in the world, she realizes that she must pass her knowledge on to the masses before the asian thugs kill her.
She calls Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman). Norman is a smart man but is a complete dummy compared to Lucy. Lucy needs to pass on her info and Norman is the best man for the job.
Meanwhile, the thugs are trying to kill Lucy, but she evades them.
Eventually the thugs catch up to her and the story reaches its climax.
Do you want to know what happens? Go see the movie and then email me and tell me what you think. I don’t want to ruin it for you.
What I will tell you about is the actors.
Morgan Freeman was good, but he’ll never be as good as Red Redding from Shawshank. His role was needed but I found his character to be uninteresting.
Scarlett Johansson was sub-par, which pains me to say. But I must speak my feelings if I want to be considered a legitimate movie reviewer. Her acting in this film before she had the drugs ingested into her system was a bit over the top. It seemed forced to me. And once she got the drugs in her system she was too monotone. I know the role may have called for monotone but it was so lackluster that it kind of bored me.
Back to the story. (Sorry, I’m all over the place.)
Once Lucy had these drugs in her she could do anything. She could control people, change her eye and hair color, pull weapons out of peoples hands, invade peoples electronic devices, stop time, and even time travel.
So why in the hell couldn’t she make more drugs to keep her alive, or just kill all the people trying to kill her?
You know what? I AM going to ruin this movie for you.
Lucy was an unstable god and also a time traveller who didn’t do what I would’ve done if I was on these drugs.
….which is rule the world with an iron fist.
And that’s why I don’t do drugs… Because I WILL RULE THE WORLD!
Before I close my article I would like to say that just because I didn’t give this film a favorable review doesn’t mean I wasn’t entertained… I was entertained.
I just liked this film a lot more when it starred Bradley Cooper and was called “Limitless.”
Matty W. Kelley, reporting.
Fun Fact: I told you I was going to get back to this, and here we are.
“The major premise of this movie is that humans only use a small percentage of our brains. This is a fallacy. While it is true that not all parts of our brain are active at all times, it all gets used. It would be just as true to say that we don’t “use” our legs when we sit down.”
-I got this fact straight from the IMDb Goofs section for this film AND I ran it by a guy I work with who is a freshman in college, studying psychology, and he said the same thing. So it’s GOT to be true!
Fun Matty Fact: I will never eat fish in my life, but if I had the opportunity to eat Ray Liotta’s brain like Anthony Hopkins did in “Hannibal,” I think I might… Just think of that dinner party. Me, Hannibal Lecter, Ray Liotta and Julianne Moore, sitting around slugging back a nice bottle of chianti while telling stories of our lives. Oh that would be just delicious.