Lucy in the sky on steroids....

Rating: 8/10 (23 June 2015)

The beginning is promising - female is tricked by selfish male friend into a rather horrific chain of events in typical Luc Besson fashion. As in the Fifth Element mayhem is released in abundance, in many unlikely places and in many unlikely ways, but it is watchable, likable, and an entertaining couple of hours or so.
Perhaps the sci-fi facts are loosely (should that be lucily?)interwoven but it is tightly directed, well paced, and, in places, inventively shot. Scarlet Johannson does everything she is asked to do and more, is almost well supported by the rest of the cast, and the cinematography and sound are up with the best.
Not a film to be taken too seriously, for, as Morgan Freeman tells us, "it's only theory", but taken on face value it is worthwhile cinema.
Watch it for some light hearted thrills in one of Mr Besson's better films.