Trippy, fun, silly and crowd-pleasing; Besson's return-to-form (of sorts) & Johansson gets her ya-yas out

Rating: 8/10 (27 July 2014)

LUCY (2014) *** Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-Sik Choi, Amr Waked, Pilou Asbaek, Analeigh Tipton. Luc Besson's return-to-form (of sorts) with a high-octane sci-fi auctioneer about an American expat (Johansson getting her ya-yas out) who unwittingly becomes a drug mule in Taiwan but suffers a near fatal overdose on a synthetic new drug that expands the mind's thought capacity with unexpectedly near super-human results. Freeman provides backstory as the scientist who's theory about the use of the human mind's capabilities come to fruition when Johansson seeks his consul with a time-ticking biological bomb ready to go off inside. Trippy, fun, silly and crowd-pleasing with some gimmicky visual effects and sequences designed to outweigh the superficial theatrics at hand. Hang on!