Lucy, you got some splainin' to do!

Rating: 5/10 (28 July 2014)

ANOTHER mediocre movie on the board for 2014. Actually, mediocre would be kind to this one. Wow. A decent idea and some cool action sequences in the trailer do not make an amazing movie. While Besson typically does not under deliver to this degree, this is a rare instance that is painful to endure. While Johanssen may not be an amazing actress, it is definitely not all her fault here. If asked to inflict pain on someone or be involved in an action sequence, she does so willingly as seen in "The Avengers", but unfortunately it happens much too rarely here. Instead she speaks strange banter about cortex and brain potential and then goes crazy places in her mind and in the world from electronic devices, to people's brains, to the past where some crazy unevolved ancestors exist and where the Big Bang Theory apparently began. Strange. And if it's a political or religious agenda that Besson was trying to get across here at the expense of the story and everything else, shame shame.