A "smart" summer film that ultimately looses its brains

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2014)

Lucy is about a young woman who ends up with a special drug inside her body that let's her use more than 10% of her brain. A lot of people have stated this film is a "smart" film and that regular summer audiences didn't like it because they didn't understand it. Just because a film deals with science doesn't automatically make it a "smart" film. To make a movie a "smart" film it actually has to have some intelligence put into it. The title character never seemed to evolve. Sure in the beginning she was a party girl and she progressed into the unstoppable machine but ultimately we only see two sides of Lucy the party girl and the ass kicking girl. There is never a happy medium. That leads to another point. As the film progresses Lucy begins to get stronger and stronger ultimately to the point where she's unstoppable and that's where the movie begins to get boring. Sure there are car chase scenes and shoot outs but if the main character isn't in danger then what's the point? Sure you have supporting characters but we never see them get fleshed out so we are left with no one to really care about. Th film also doesn't benefit from a 90 minute running time. I honestly think the film could have been slightly better with about 20 or so minutes added on of character development. The most redeeming quality of this film though is Scarlett Johansson. Mrs Johansson has a very bright future ahead to become a huge female action hero and a very great actress in general. From the very beginning you believed this was Lucy never for a minute did you feel it was Scarlett Johansson playing Lucy. She turned from normal party girl to badass in a snap of the fingers with the utmost poise. "Lucy" failed at being a smart, thought provoking film that would change the way we look at not ourselves but at our brains but did make Scarlett Johansson into an actress I can not wait to see more of.