Now here's a proper superpower....

Rating: 5/10 (29 May 2020)

So "Lucy" (Scarlett Johansson) is caught up in a drug smuggling caper. When the package she has in her innards leaks, the new synthetic drug she is carrying gets into her system and boy does it change her. Meantime, Morgan Freeman is a top scientist trying to understand why humankind - and most other sentient beings - appear to exists using less that 5% of their cerebral capacity... Yes, you've guessed it - "Lucy" now has a quirk that enables her to use much more of her brainpower; and that in turn enables her to do just about anything - even manipulate matter and time. She is, luckily for all concerned, quite a decent soul and so rather than set out on a course of world domination, she settles for involving a Frenchman policeman, Amr Waked, in her hunt to bring her traffickers to justice and, hopefully, to relieve her predicament. There's plenty of action, loads of car-flipping chases but the vastness of the opportunities offered by the story are not really translated into anything like what could have been. The effects are fine, Scarlett always carries off these kind of roles well enough, but Freeman features very sparingly and offers us very little by way of characterisation. I am afraid that this is just a waste of a good idea...