The History AND Analysis Of “Lucy” Essay Example

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The film is preoccupying but traceless. What starts out as a potentially great movie is winded up to being a merely good one in the end (Grim, 2014, n.p.). Again Luc Besson tries to "masculinize" a sex symbol by creating a character that has all the credentials to be remembered in the action genre. Just a shame that his Lucy, whose adventures proceed galloping between action and science fiction, run out the best ideas from the start.
In telling the story of the protagonist in contact with a new drug can develop the ability to use the most of his brain (the film argues that a human being can only use 10% of its mental capacity), Besson cannot wait get to that 100% of brain power, the final goal of his film.
Good thing there's Scarlett Johansson in front of the camera. The director plays well with her sensuality combining and contrasting it with supernatural power.
After a solid first half, the film runs fast towards its end, as if entire sections of the script had been torn away, cut with a hatchet. What remains is a good test of Johansson, is effective beginning in the shoes of a little girl who wakes up scared, and suddenly her whole brain turns into a weapon of mass destruction that knows no mercy (Blackburn, 2014, n.p.). The most interesting scene sees her in a telephone conversation with her mother, all while a surgeon tries to put the stitches without anesthesia.
Visually effective, Lucy ends up drowning in special effects that increase with an unwinding of ideas. They are right when overseas critics define the film as "entertaining and silly" (Gettell, 2014, n.p.).
This is Lucy, pretentious on the surface, but in reality is another example of "fast food cinema" that sacrifices good ideas in the name of entertainment: ninety minutes compelling but never memorable.

Bibliographic Entry

Blackburn, R. (2014). Lucy, limitless, transcendence – Why the ‘underused brain’ is a film
Maker’s myth. Belfast Telegraph. [Online] 20th July. N.p. Available from:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/lucy-limitless-transcendence-why-the-underused-brain-is-a-filmmakers-myth-30445915.html
Gettell, O. (2014). Lucy: 5 reasons the Scarlett Johansson film ruled the box office. Los Angeles
Times. [Online] 28th July. N.p. Available from: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-lucy-5-reasons-scarlett-johansson-ruled-the-box-office-20140728-story.html
Grim, Bob.(2014). Lucy, Short Review. [Online]. Available from: www.newsreview.com.