Movies Reviews by Tripl3M: Tonight Lucy (Spoilers... duh)

Lucy was interesting.

Interesting from a scientific point of view, from the standpoint of a enjoyment seeking viewer maybe not so much.

While it had it's fair share gruesome and violent scene, they were clearly not the focus of the movie. You'd already seen most if you seen the trailer.
Lucy doesn't want to focus on the action, but rather the concept which underlines it. That humans just use 10% of their brains and therefore are limited in certain manners.

Here's a basic spoiler free version of the run down of the film:
Lucy is some college brat in Taiwan. There she somehow gets involved into a drug deal which goes horribly south for her. The dealer implant the drug CP40S, I think was it.. I am going later more into that, into her lower belly. After a near rape scene (still in the trailer, no spoiler) the bag brusts open and she is flooded with 500g of concentrated CP40S. Now CP40S is a substance pregnant mothers produced, which gives the baby the required energy to grow it's bones. Basically it's a energy nuke for your body. Thanks to the high dosis she just got unwillingly, she slowly becomes able to access more and more of her brain's latent abilities.

In the meantime, Morgan Freeman's character is some biology professor who happens to research this and serves as nothing more than moral guideline for the slowly more detached Lucy.

And that's pretty much the entire movie.
It was interesting to sit in there. At first I thought from the trailers it would have a heavy action focus, but after the first few minutes I was proven wrong.

The movie definitely starts off as a Yakuza drug war movie, but once Morgan Freeman enter the picture, the theme and tone change a lot, since by that point Lucy already realised that she is going to die within 24 hours or something and the movie turns from this mafia like thing to a science heavy philosophie discussion about what she, Lucy, as she is slowly transcending all of mankind, should do with all of the knowledge she has.

I personally enjoyed the film a lot. Mostly for the way the concept of a fully used brain is explained. But I can clearly see why people are so 50/50 about it. While some are lured in by the action packed trailer, won't find that much combat in it. As for those, who already knew a bit of the story and were expecting a philosophical masterpiece like Life of Pi, will be surprised to see that the movie doesn't really attempt to leave it's comfort zone of the potential of the brain too much. It sticks very closely to it.
An example:
In the beginning a random college student asks Morgan Freeman during a lecture, what would be if a person has control of 100% of their body and he answers:
"I actually do not know."
Even though they just seconds said that at 50% or so a human could manipulated matter, at 70% time... They're tiptoeing around the obvious answer of "They'd be god."
They also avoid this answer in the end by having Lucy "decreated" herself, to make all her cells into one again, so she could store all her knowledge into SPACE USB STICK.

There are a few weird things in this movie, but most are due to the fact of the concept being, well sci-fi as hell.
For example towards the third act she "leaves" her body and travels back in time or the function of the drug in general is a little too confident, but most of this are Movie mistakes which are needed to actually have the movie flow continuously.

My final statement:

Lucy is a great snack for an intelligent discussion. If you're going into it, hoping it's like Matrix, then you're expecting the wrong thing.
I personally liked it a lot and probably buy it on Blu-Ray if I happen to see it. I watched it with a good and smart friend from Highschool and she and I had a interesting talk about it afterwards. There also is the fact, that anything that goes outside of conventional theories is automatically interesting to me and this is definitely something like that.

Anyhow that's it.
Trips, out.

P.S.: I was there with two friends from school and one the m had their boyfriend with them. After the movie I went to the violent and so did the girls, leaving the boyfriend waiting outside. I exited the male bathroom, look around, none of them are there, so I go downstairs to see if they're already at the car. Apparently he was up there, we just didn't see each other, like literally didn't see each other and that after a movie about humans gaining new abilities because of more used brains. I thought it was a funny little thing that happened.