Long time since I've seen such a hard swing with such a loud miss...

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2016)

It's been a long time since I've seen such a hard swing with such a loud miss. "Lucy" truly deserves an A for effort; and in the world of this film, effort probably does start with the letter "A." After all, 1+1 does not equal 2, life did not begin 3.5 billion years ago (only 1 billion); and dolphins use twice as much of their brains as humans, Oh, and cerebral metastasis (AKA cancer) gets you high and gives you superpowers.
Now, despite what you may think, I highly recommend this film. For any of you who have not seen it, I promise, you are missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity. It is a brilliant, postmodernist masterpiece that subverts any universal presumptions, through an incongruous combination of speculation, suppositions and searing bullshit.
Luc Benson's "Lucy" (starring Scarlet Johansson in the title role) follows an American student in Taiwan. She quickly gets kidnapped by Korean gangsters who place an experimental, synthetic hormone inside her stomach, with the intent of making her a "drug mule." The drug, called CPH4, winds up leaking into her bloodstream, allowing her to access 100% of her brain.
I went into this film expecting to experience your basic summer blockbuster action film. I didn't expect or want a science lesson. I wanted to see Scarlet Johansson kick some ass! I wanted to get swept up in silliness at moments, cling to my chair at others and have my jaw drop so low in awe at some innovative stunts.
Needless to say, action films are not what they used to be. There are no more iconic Donna Keegan, (doubling for Jamie Lee Curtis) hanging from helicopters ("True Lies" 1994), nothing that stays with you at all for that matter.
So what happened to the action film today?
Surely nothing iconic is being created on the level we used to see.