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LUCY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Universal Pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grade:\u00a0 B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0 Luc Besson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay:\u00a0 Luc Besson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0 Scarlett Johannson, Morgan Freeman, Pilou Asbaek,\u00a0 Min-sik Choi, Clare Tran<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screened at: NYC, 7\/21\/14<\/p>\n

Opens:\u00a0 July 25, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the movie\u2019s conclusion, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) states: \u201cWe\u2019ve had life for a billion years.\u00a0 Now we know what to do with it.\u201d\u00a0 What does she think we should do with our lives?\u00a0 Presumably we should be able to stare at a gun and watch the bullets fall out harmlessly to the ground; look at a bunch of gangsters pointing AK-47s at us and have them drop their pieces and fly to the ceiling flaying impotently\u2019 conjure up dinosaurs and disappear just as they are about to gobble you up; and drive effortlessly down a one-way highway while watching cars pile up helplessly.\u00a0 In other words, while you may think that Lucy, who is steadily able to raise the capacity of her brain from the usual, human 10% to 100%, will be able to solve a Rubik Cube in 15 seconds, complete a New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle in indelible ink, or memorize 154 theorems in minutes without ever taking high-school geometry, Lucy\u2019s brain is completely different.\u00a0 Sure, she probably could learn to speak French with a Montr\u00e9al accent if she should get the strange notion to do so, but writer-director Luc Besson has other plans for this brainiac.\u00a0 She has the powers of a superhero: she can exercise telekinesis by moving objects and people from one place to another by simply willing it, can take a quick look at the unspoiled U.S. when Native Americans ruled the land, and touch the forehead of a famous scientist to discover that his six-year-old daughter had died in an auto accident.\u00a0 What\u2019s more she can look at an X-ray of a person on an operating table, discern that he has advanced, incurable cancer, and shoot the poor fellow because \u201che could not possibly survive anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Lucy the new embodiment of feminine empowerment?\u00a0 That\u2019s probably among the themes that Luc Besson had in mind, considering that he also created such powerful female heroes as the eponymous Femme Nikita and no less than Joan of Arc in \u201cMessenger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLucy\u201d is a combination of the title character\u2019s superhuman powers and a standard gangster melodrama, the former given life by a gorgeous series of psychedelic images and imaginative, fantasy scenes, while the latter exhibits groups of Taiwanese thugs with AK-47\u2019s, a drug mob that kidnaps people and forces them to work as drug mules by implanting whole plastic bags of blue powder into their stomachs.\u00a0 When such a bag embedded in Lucy breaks, some of the powder spills out transforming her brain capacity gradually, a feat that later evokes the interest of Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), seen lecturing a large group of scientists riveted on his commentary.\u00a0 \u201cThere are more communications between our cells than there are stars in the sky,\u201d he intones, thereby paving the way for a movie that gives graphic substance to Lucy\u2019s potency.<\/p>\n

Filming in Taipei and Paris (and allegedly annoyed by the constant interruptions of paparazzi during the late night shootings on the Chinese island), Besson hones in on Choi Min-sik as Kang, the leader of a large drug mob intent on selling drugs, though for what purpose we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 To increase brain power?\u00a0 The mobster seems unaware of that potential.\u00a0 Kang is sought by Amr Waked as a tough, French policeman who has no fear of the gangsters and tries to act calm when Lucy takes the wheels of a police car.\u00a0 The gang chases Lucy; Lucy has visions that bring out the best imaginations of the Special Effects guys. And so it goes, the picture essentially split between those two polar choices, a sci-fi extravaganza and a standard hoodlum tale.<\/p>\n

Scarlett Johansson never looked better or more assured of her role.\u00a0 If she speaks in a monotone and keeps a poker face throughout, this is obviously Besson\u2019s intention. We can be sure that Johannson can tap the entire scale of emotions as she has done with films like \u201cHitchcock\u201d where she became Janet Leigh and \u201cHer\u201d where her personality shines even as a disembodied voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cLucy\u201d is ordinary as a gangster story, exceptional in its special effects, but ultimately serving no realistic point since a drug that increases our brain power\u2014such a chemical may indeed be in our future\u2014may give us 4.0 averages in college but will not likely be able to talk the bullets out of a gun.<\/p>\n

Rated R. 88\u00a0 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 2014 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical \u2013 A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall – B<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Lucy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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