LUCY

See it at the Movies

Joyce and Don Fowler
Posted 7/30/14

* * * * ½

(Visually entrancing

adventure)

We are seldom totally entranced by a movie the way we were in “Lucy,” an hour and a half adventure into the unknown, enhanced by amazing …

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LUCY

See it at the Movies

Posted

* * * * ½

(Visually entrancing

adventure)

We are seldom totally entranced by a movie the way we were in “Lucy,” an hour and a half adventure into the unknown, enhanced by amazing visual effects that left us breathless. Beginning and ending with a barrage of images, including Lucy, the ape, the movie grabs you and never lets go.

Scarlett Johansson plays the title character, an innocent young lady who is duped by her boyfriend into delivering a suitcase to an Asian mob leader (Min-sik Choi). The suitcase contains CPH4, a strange drug that enhances the percentage of the brain that humans use beyond the believed amount of 10 percent. Bags of the drug are implanted in her body. When a beating causes the drug to escape, running rampantly through her blood, all heck breaks loose as her brain capacity keeps increasing, giving her amazing powers.

Meanwhile, she makes contact with a scientist (Morgan Freeman), who has been studying the capability of the human brain, and he becomes deeply involved in her fate as she attempts to track down other men who have been implanted with the drug and the evil people who implanted them.

We don’t want to tell you any more and spoil the many surprises that follow.

In addition to being an intense, bloody adventure, “Lucy” also has some important messages about tampering with the human brain, right down to examining the nature and purpose of the human condition.

The special effects and perfect editing of this mind-blowing movie should earn a few Academy Awards, as special effects and the insertion of exploding scenes of the universe and its creatures are like nothing we have ever seen on screen before.

There are many surprises awaiting you in this unique movie. Don, especially, was totally mesmerized by it.

Rated R, with much violence.

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