Nonsense and Morgan Freeman.

Rating: 2/10 (26 August 2014)

Firstly, let me just say that Under The Skin is already my film of the year, and I can't imagine anything changing that position with just a few months of 2014 left. I did not expect Lucy to be as magnificent as that of course, but I had hoped for some mildly entertaining sci-fi to pass a couple of hours at the cinema, alas however, this movie got under my skin alright, but for all the wrong reasons. Luc Beeson has been put firmly in his place by Mr Glazer. .
We begin with some shots of a chimp (which looks absolutely terrible when compared with the Apes movie out at the moment), and Morgan Freeman spouting off pseudo-scientific garbage from a podium being well.......Morgan Freeman. Is it just me, or is anyone else sick and tired of seeing Freeman appear in movies as the "knowledgeable old black man" adding nothing to any film he's been in for years, and existing only as a piece of old mahogany furniture as if his mere presence gives a flick some validity? He's been typecast for at least a decade now and surely he must know how boring a character he's become? Honestly, you could take him out of any of the last 20 films he's made and place him in another and no one would notice the difference. What a yawn. I wish he would just call it a day and retire with his ample fortune. But anyway, back to Lucy. .
Once Scarlets character has a package of drugs burst inside her she apparently gets the ability to use more of her brain (does anyone with even half a brain still believe this 10% nonsense? Obviously Beeson thinks someone does), and all of a sudden she acquires these superhuman abilities which even with some amazing drug effects are preposterous (yes we don't see all of the available light on the spectrum for example but that's a condition of our eyes' construction, not something a pill will fix). Then we have several intercut scenes of wildebeest roaming the plains (or was that Fawlty Towers?) and animals having sex, crashing oceans, and other ridiculous tosh that's supposed to underpin the daft plot. If I wasn't cringing at the dialogue that came out of Scarlets mouth I was laughing out loud at the scientific woo I was being force fed. I know it's a fact that America is low on scientific literacy but surely no one could swallow this nonsense? I mean really? It's been mentioned many times too that Lucy is a bit like Limitless, which I agree with slightly, but Limitless was fun and wasn't trying to take itself seriously, while the longer Lucy went on, the more ridiculously "What The Bleep Do We Know" it got. Exchanging one pseudo- scientific soundbite for another (sending me off down the proverbial rabbit hole). .
By the end I felt mentally raped of my intelligence. Yes it's only a movie, but I know that somewhere out there people read into stuff like this creating "alternative" websites and Facebook memes that spread wacko rubbish all about (like we only use 10% of our brains). But maybe I'm wrong, because when I truthfully look back at my experience of watching Lucy, I get the sense that I was indeed only using 10% of my brain, or maybe that's all I was left with.