A no-brainer brain blaster of a sci-fi action thriller

Rating: 6/10 (1 August 2014)

**** This review may contain spoilers****
Luc Bresson has a thing with chicks. Remember his The Fifth Element, LA Femme Nikita, and Leon: The Professional? But so what! Luc has given us the hardcore female heroes who know how to be real bad-ass, ball-busting, tougher-than-nails revenge/ retribution/save-the-world machines.
And so with Lucy very aptly played by Scarlett Johansson. She was good as The Black Widow in the Avengers, she's good here, too.
The movie is classified as a sci-fi action thriller. Luc Bes son, as writer director loves to play around this genre. The movie is based on the disputed premise that only 10% of the brain is utilized by humans. If the other 90% were utilized, the human capabilities would be multiplied manifold.
I suggest you leave 99% of your brain outside the cinema hall if you truly want to enjoy the flick.
The movie begins with a 25 year old student, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), being conned by her seedy-looking boyfriend to deliver a briefcase to some clients. The briefcase gets chained to her hand, she moves in to deliver, the boyfriend gets his face blown off, and the film gets rolling. What a dumb female, this Lucy, you think - perhaps she's using only 1% of her brain.
The briefcase contains a blue colored drug. The Korean drug lord turns Lucy into a drug mule after a minor operation and dumps her into a dingy cell where a scumbag tries to molest her. Lucy resists and is kicked in the stomach. The packet bursts and the chemical gets absorbed in the blood. From here on, the movie blasts off.
The chemical is a sort of hormone which is similar to that produced and transferred by a mother to her kid in the womb. The potent drug is supposed to boost the brain's capacity to its full potential.
Lucy's brain cells start multiplying, the axons keep firing on all cylinders and Lucy gains successively greater powers as her brain potential increases form 10, 20, 40, right up 100%. Along the way, Lucy picks up great strength, immunity to pain, powers of regeneration, and, hold your breath, teleportation, telekinesis, telepathy and esp. Down,t know what else I've left out. The whole process of successive levels is flashed on the screen like a tacky video game?
And so Lucy goes about wreaking havoc on her tormentors and other baddies, spilling blood and guts along the way.