Luc Besson director of films such as Leon: The Professional and The Family presents this year Lucy, a blend of science fiction with action. Judging only by the trailer the film looks like a big roller coaster of emotions and spectacular action scenes, that is the perfect package to a summer blockbuster, what happens is that the inconsistency of the story makes you miss huge points along the way.
At the beginning of the film we met Lucy, a 25 year-old American girl living in Taiwan, China. Lucy finds herself obliged to deliver a briefcase to a guy named Mr. Jang. She does not know what is inside the briefcase and quickly becomes trapped in a nightmare when she is captured to transport in her body a very powerful drug that would revolutionize the market of trafficking. When the drug bag she carries burst inside her belly, Lucy begins to feel huge differences in her body and her mind is about to reach the maximum power that any human being ever be able to reach, 100%.
The film tries to have a philosophical side, on the existence of human life and how far mankind will be able to go in the future, but also has a significant religious charge and we can take from it some questions about the existence of God and some elements in the film indicate precisely for that. The problem is that Lucy tries to give too much without giving us time to absorb everything and some times ends up being a mess.
The plot is not well constructed and some questions about the characters are left in the air. There are elements that could have been better explored and explained that simply remain unriddle.
What really drives this movie is the good performance of Scarlett Johansson, besides that, the film ends up being a huge disappointment. Luc Besson tried to show some originality, the editing, the way music is used in each scene and how he directs it, the problem is that a lot does not result in the best way. We know that the main character acquired an unusual ability, but some of her actions are simply out of context. The use of humor was also a bit out of place. I think the intent was light up the heavy atmosphere present in some moments, but instead of making us laugh naturally, we ended up laughing of what does not make sense. The character played by Morgan Freeman is not well developed and that is another thing that damages it because turns out to be a key character in the film. He is the professor who supports all this brain theory.
I had the opportunity to see it in IMAX, as regards the visual effects IMAX screen is perfect for the experience, but honestly I think the story is not worth the money because taking these effects it can well be seen in a normal theater screen.
The concept could have been better developed, but it certainly kept me entertained the whole time. Only hoped that Lucy was one of the best movies this summer, but in fact is not.
