Good Story But Weird Ending

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2014)

I saw "Lucy", starring Scarlett Johansson-The Black Widow in the Avengers_plus she is getting her own Black Widow movie, The Spirit; Morgan Freeman-Last Vegas, Wanted; Min-sik Choi-I saw the Devil, Oldboy_2003 and Amr Waked-Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Syriana.
This is a pretty good action movie that is written & directed by Luc Besson, who had a hand in some of my favorite movies, including La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element, the Transporter movies and the Taken movies. Scarlett plays a girl that ends up being in the wrong place at the wrong time, because of her sleazy boyfriend. Min-sik is a drug dealer that enlists Scarlett's unwilling assistance in smuggling a new designer drug through customs-it is surgically implanted into her stomach. After a mis-hap, the drugs get into her system and starts changing her metabolism. It increases her brain usage capacity-most people only use about 10%-and keeps increasing it, so that she gets smarter and smarter and starts developing heightened senses, telekinesis and even a little mind control. Morgan plays a scientist that just happened to be an expert in the human mind, at least 10% of it, and has written papers on what would happen if a person could use more that 10%. So of course, Scarlett wants to meet him and talk shop with him. Amr is a policeman that befriends Scarlett and goes along for the ride of his life. If you like Luc Besson movies, then you know he is good with action and car chases and believe it or not, there are even dinosaurs that make an appearance. The only problem was the ending; I will not give it away here but it was a little weird. It's rated "R" for violence, sexuality-no nudity-and some disturbing images and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes. I really enjoyed it-except for the ending-and would but it on DVD.