LUCY- Not Only in the Sky, but Everywhere

Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson in "LUCY"

"Lucy"directed by Luc Besson, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman.

A MINI REVIEW

I'll come right out and say it.  I thought this film was stupid- but fun, in a way. Still, beneath the talents of the director and stars.

Trampy Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) in a denim jacket and miniskirt, becomes an unwilling drug mule carrying an illegal drug that looked to me to be a bag of blue crystal meth straight out of Breaking Bad's Walter White's lab.  The drug is sewn into her abdomen by compromised surgeons beholden to an Asian drug lord, and into other unwitting, duped, drugged foreigners.  A side effect of the drug is that it increases your brain capacity to 100%.  Seems the eminent neuro-biologist, Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman) is researching drugs that could do just that!  When her “package” starts leaking, and her brain starts revving up, the new Lucy is transformed into a sophisticated, worldly woman, wearing a skinny black dress and a better hairdo.  Lucy’s newly acquired brain-power allows her to wield heavy weapons and AK 47s  which she employs to blow away an army of well-dressed, identical-looking Asian mobsters involved in the drug deal while enjoying some heavy trippin'.  (Some special effects looked like 1970s light-shows, or scenes from Terrence Malick's  "Tree of Life.") In Professor Norman’s lab, she then mysteriously evolves into a gooey, crawling black kudzu that invades and appears to destroy all the computers, the furniture, the walls- everything but humans and her little black chair; she ends up a thumb-drive.  Yeah.  But Lucy, as thumb-drive now in the professors capable hands, contains all the information needed to increase the brain capacity of all human beings.  Yikes!