Review of Lucy (2014) by Dillinger P — 04 May 2015

You would be forgiven, 20 minutes into Lucy, for believing that what you were in store for, was a visually, thought provoking film, with a strong protagonist and some deep meaning behind it all. Sadly, Lucy soon turns its a film, that is in such a rush to finish, not only do we care very little for the people around us but we question their logical thinking and acceptance to the baffling scenes that go on around them.

Lucy is a young lady, on holiday with her friend and smitten for some dodgy local. When she is forced to deliver a package, on behalf of her love interest, things become a little more complex and daunting than she could ever imagine.

Lucy soon finds herself in even deeper trouble, when a stash of a chemical drug, inserted into her intestines is ruptured, pushing Lucy's brain function and power into a godly like manner. It all sounds okay and in reality everything up to this exact point is completely brilliant, Lucy, played by Scarlett Johannson, comes across as a fun loving, slightly clumsy and frightened young woman, the situation she finds herself in is equally daunting, desperate and terrifying, Luc Besson also is keen to use loads of imagery of animals stalking prey, in order to further give us the sense that Lucy is in serious trouble.

However once the drugs rupture, the only threat to Lucy is time, she becomes like Neo ot of the matrix, her character dissapates into a robotic, jacked up female and any human element to her is destroyed completely.

The only great moment being, a phone call she makes to her mother, telling her that she loves her. I am fine with the concept, its just when our protagonist is placed on such a high platform, they become untouchable.

All of a sudden, with no influence Lucy decides she wants to figure out everything there is to know about time and space, she becomes an ultimate killing machine, in lets face it, pretty boring action sequences and we are just left watching pretty pictures unfold in front of our eyes, as we are meant to suspend belief to incredible levels, thats fine, but the characters in this film have no questions, no reasoning for backing Lucy, she just decides to go on this mission and force people she doesnt know to risk everything for her.

Its all a big confused mess. Luckily is looks stunning, the cinemtography is gorgeous, the CGI in places is bareable and the edit is quick paced and like a speeding bullet. But I dont know what it is Luc Besson is trying to say, if hes trying to make an action movie he failed, if he was trying to make a psycholical thriller, he failed.

What he has created instead is an enjoyable piece of nonsense that will kill an hour and a half. It has some extremely strong moments and brilliant visual flair, however character, plot and reasoning goes out the window soon after Lucy turns into a god.