Review of Lucy

Lucy (I) (2014)
8/10
Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge.
12 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
If I understand this movie correctly it combines the movie Crank, Jean Grey from X-men, and La Camaleón from Machete Kills into one? With that being said there is nothing wrong with any of the characters or any of the actors in those films and portraying those parts, but this movie did a good job of combining those characters together into one badass female character.

Scarlett Johansson showed me in this movie that she can play a lead role in a movie very well and should be given this opportunity more often.

Lucy has powers the normal mind cannot fathom, but this is what I wanted from the movie. I don't want it dumbed down just because it is a movie I wanted to see how she sees therefore getting the real story of Lucy. Lucy is at war with this Asian gang of drug-dealers whom apparently are not afraid of catching any blood-born illnesses. She is able to use 100% of her brain power as opposed to the normal humans 15%. Lucy can read minds, change her appearance, move things with her mind, read extremely fast, change her cell structure, time travel and much more.

The funny part I found in the movie was Lucy is able to learn and become extremely smart, but she cannot walk in high heels. It's also hard for me to read the critic reviews and actually think that they really watched the movie. The part where Lucy reads the scientist mind and finds his daughter was in a car crash she was obviously not just reading his mind to convince him of her power she was doing something to him to convince him as well. Just like the part where Lucy kisses Pierre Del Rio for no apparent reason to the viewer. She was using her power to convince him of something. She put something into his brain. This is the director playing a trick on the viewers making them not believe something just because the didn't see it. If you watched the movie you would know what she is capable of and it should be really easy to comprehend what is going on in the movie. There are somethings that are spelled out for the viewers and some that are not. I don't expect a movie to explain everything nor do I like a film that does. There has to be something left open for the imagination and Luc Besson did a wonderful job doing just that. I thought the ending was perfect considering all she learned and what she saw.
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