LUCY "works" if you use only 1% of your brain . . .

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2014)

. . . and just relax, sit back, and enjoy all the pretty pictures. LUCY should be a big hit with the semi-comatose crowd. But as soon as you up your brain usage to, say, 5% (or, Heaven forbid, if you're Morgan Freeman's title character co-star Winter from DOLPHIN TALE, crackling along at 20% usage), LUCY falls flat. Writer\director Luc Besson's "plot" is so hare-brained that this flick would have been better with no effort of providing a "story" at all. Put another way, if you wear ear plugs to your theater or wait until you can watch LUCY with you device on "mute," you'll save your brain from being cluttered with such questions as: 1)If Lucy's date-of-the-week "Richard" already had been paid for what he knew was a suicide mission, why didn't he leave the city? 2)How cynical is it to depict any substantial increase in human brain power as a sure-fire pathway to serial killing? (Put another way, why doesn't Winter emulate fellow Floridian Ted Bundy?) 3)If "Mr. Jang" had an indestructible crew of henchmen, why didn't he rob the world's treasure hot spots, rather than try to peddle a new drug to young and poor ravers? 4)Why did I spend time and money on LUCY, knowing that Mr. Besson was the "brains" behind BANDIDAS and BRICK MANSIONS?