The pull of Scarlett Johansson proved too much. I now own the Blu-ray Lucy

Rating: 6/10 (28 January 2015)

Lucy
The pull of Scarlett Johansson proved too much. I now own the Blu-ray Lucy
On one level the film can be viewed as quite simple, nothing new. Money, drugs, underworld, car chases, pretty lead Scarlett Johansson, and quite a bit of CGI
On a more depressing level, the film questions in basic terms, what is life? Is there nothing more than matter / energy, whatever name man has assigned to it.
Lucy the story is as shallow as life itself.
Right, I'm off to kill myself (only joking)
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Budget: $40,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: $43,899,340 (USA) (25 July 2014) Gross: $126,546,825 (USA) (31 October 2014)
Doing well. These figures wouldn't mean much to someone like Lucy on the blue stuff ;D
A chronological review
The opening sequence with balls and deep bass, presented a *Scoopex flashback.
The vibrant opening location and it's oriental signs - flashbacks to Lost in Translation occurred.
Scarlett Johansson's black & red dress, looked great, even if it emitted vibes of Darth Maul.
The appearance of Min-Si Choi was reassuring. You might know him from Oldboy, I Saw the Devil. Great actor.
The blue crystal rocks got me thinking Breaking Bad.
Lucy's eyes turning blue, seemed David Banner. Imagine for a moment, a blue Hulk. Scarlett Johansson bursting out of her cloths, none of them surviving the expansion process, with the exception of a thong. Now that's a visual, not to mention a possible future blockbuster.
Heavyweight Morgan Freeman shows up as professor, lecturing on the formation of life. I've had A.I. on my mind for a while. Will man ever create a machine that can think beyond itself?
Lucy absorbing the blue crystal, then defying gravity? err, OK. Watching Lucy roll up the wall, across the ceiling, looks like they built a revolving room. Luckily the room is a basic cell, a box what's supposed to look like Grey concrete, but looks like it has been stitched together at the seams like patch work.
High on blue crystal Lucy goes on a rampage, shooting people, entering an operating theater, studies brain x-rays hanging on the wall, and understands them? Really? Seeing Lucy matter-of-fact push someone off of an operating table mid operation felt fresh.
Some rather good special effects occur around this % that show a tree though the eye's of Lucy. The tree looks colorful, transparent, moving, like a bizarre trip. Likewise, when Lucy hugs people, we see the person she's hugging appear semi transparent. Again there's a colorful trip edge.
Silly as Lucy is, the trick involves acceptance, and going with silly. If Superman can fly, then Lucy can do what Lucy does, right? Still, during one particular scene, Lucy telephones Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman ) and her face appears on his television screen. Professor Norman does not freak out? no, he listens to what Lucy has to say. You'd have thought he might seek to get Lucy incarcerated in the name of sake of safely for all.
The toilet scene with the dissolve FX, wow, impressive CGI
Lucy drives a car, fast through Paris, towards oncoming traffic, on pavements etc. It's quite a rush.
Lucy creates a black substance, lots of it, it craws around searching. Part of me got thinking, Under the Skin, as that had black stuff to. it's also the kind of thing you might expect to show up during Metal Gear Solid.
Time-travel anyone? yup, the blue stuff allows for time travel. Unbelievable.
Of all the things Lucy could do, she decides, at the end, to turn herself into a memory stick.
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