What could have been a path breaking cinema ends up being just another good film
By Amrit Rukhaiyaar
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| Lucy (2014) - By Luc Besson |
Reviewer's Rating: 6.0
IMDb Ratings: 7.8
IMDb Ratings: 7.8
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi
Country: France
Country: France
Language: English | French | Korean | Chinese
Runtime: 89 min
Color: Color
Summary: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Lucy started off like a Luc Besson's version
of 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Tree of Life. An Early Man drinking water from
a pond and then we come across a series of
fast forwarding images where we witness the constant evolution we have
made using Science and Technology.
Lucy got hold of me, right from that first
scene. 5 minutes into the film, there was a scene where we see Scarlett
Johansson being strategically circled by men in a hotel, at the same time, we
also see a Deer being targeted by Leopards. It was all so poetic and symbolically
beautiful. Such was the initial impression, this film created about it which
only made one expect great things from the rest of the movie.
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| Scarlet Johansson in Luc Besson's Lucy |
Scarlett Johansson plays the titular role in Lucy;
she is captured by a Korean Mobster, Mr. Jang, played by Min-Sik Choi. Mr. Jang
had a pack of drugs sewed in Lucy's abdomen and gives her the job of
transporting them to Europe. Following a series of events, the drug is somehow
released inside her stomach and gets mixed up with her bloodstream, which as a
result, gives her enhanced physical and mental abilities.
On the Other hand, we see Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman) explaining an audience how humans use only 10 percent of their
brains and what could possibly happen if they become capable of using around 20
to 30 percent of their brains, which was exactly what happening with Lucy
somewhere else.
Lucy is basically an Action film with Science
Fiction as its background; however, that’s also the top reason for its
mediocrity. The film has a brilliant storyline and a fascinating philosophy about
life and evolution and it deserved to be a pure science fiction film. In my
opinion, there shouldn’t be any action at all but a thorough study of the subject.
Lucy had the potential to be a path
breaking cinema, there was several scenes and images in the films that was
sufficiently enough to awaken one’s curiosity about time, evolution and the
history of life.
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| A Still from Luc Besson's Lucy |
However, every time, the film took an
interesting turn about the discovery of Life and Evolution, it got carried away
with one of many action sequences before you could truly relish the Science
Fiction part of it. In the name of Action, Lucy exploited the Sci-Fi genre up
to an extent where it started to look bad and at times stupid.
Lucy could possibly be a philosophy on the
expression of Time as the one and only unit of measure and basis of the theory
of existence, but the film had a different priority, it thoroughly aspired be
an action film for which it looked very ordinary. After regular intervals, it
did try to jump back to its Sci-Fi roots but then the movie ended up depending
on the visuals instead of the story.
I wonder how a young Steven
Spielberg would have made this film. I think this should have been a Spielberg
Film. Lucy is a good action film and if I hadn’t realized its potentials, I
would have totally loved it.
About Author -
Amrit is a Freelance Writer and an independent Movie Critic who has an undying love for Silent Cinema. He aspires to write a book on Silent Films One day. Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction are 2 films, Amrit loves to talk about. He writes his views on cinema at Movie Geek’s Blog.
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Lucy (2014) Trailer
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