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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Lucy
2014
***½
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbaek, Analeigh Tipton

Lucy is forced to become a drug mule and smuggle a bag of CPH4 from Taiwan to Europe. However, massive quantities of the drug end up in her blood stream and give access to suppressed mental and physical powers. Like the awful Limitless, Luc Besson's philosophical scifi action movie speculates what a person could do with full brain power. Besson's take on the subject offers extremely dubious science but entertaining fiction. Although the plot gets increasingly preposterous, this short, playful and fast-paced film kept a smile on my face throughout. Scarlett Johansson gives a terrific performance, which conveys both the pure terror of the first fifteen minutes and the cool confidence thereafter.