A Nice, Action-Packed, Exciting, But Somewhat Empty Thriller

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2019)

7 February 2015. Lucy is science fiction based on the reflective speculation of what if a person could access 100% of their brain. Lucy refers to one of the earliest humanoids, who happened to be female, and also the name of the female star, played be Scarlett Johansson. She happens to befall a strange drug smuggling ring becoming the first person to begin to "revolutionize," a term introduced by Morgan Freeman's character. In the process, Luc Besson has developed an sci-fi action thriller evolving mind, space, and time. The pacing is energized and the mental evolutionary conception of Besson is consistently brought to the screen. This is a rare movie in that upon repeated viewings, the power and consistent developing emotive and mental presentation brought to the screen by Besson and Scarlett is impressive.
Thus action scenes sometimes become overly dramatic and fake looking, for the sample the car chase scene, even the initial transformation of Lucy is a bit over the top. Overall it seems that Besson;s attempt developing this progressively leaping mental concept that is satisfactorily captured on film. The Outer Limits' Five Fingers episode (1963) accomplished the same speculative venture in its television spot while Christopher Nolan accomplished a much more creative and meaningful spectacularly looking backdrop in his Interstellar (2014). Overall, Lucy is entertaining speculation that's fun to watch, with decent intensity and thrilling action that's worth to experience. Scarlett Johansson underplayed performance really stood out. Nicely done.
Other classic movies that Lucy follows in the footsteps of Brain Storm (1983), Charly (1968), The Time Machine (1960), Time After Time (1979), and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and its contemporary, The Machine (2013).