Scarlett Johansson displays her propensity for acting in "Lucy," a science fictions suspense ride that touches on the many possibilities of the human brain and the nefarious underworld of illicit drugs.
Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) defines what it's like to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her knuckle-headed beau, Richard (Pilou Asbek) unwittingly gets Lucy involved with the evil Mr. Jang (Min-Sik Choi). Lucy is beaten, drugged and forced to be one of Mr. Jang's drug mules via having a highly potent synthetic bright blue drug surgically implanted on the side of her stomach. The drug which is harbored in clear plastic accidentally gets broken while still inside Lucy's body. The massive amount of the drug triggers every vessel in her brain and as the story unfolds, her cerebral use begins its assent to 100 percent capacity.
Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman) gets to witness his many theories on how the human brain can actually function at full throttle use. "Lucy" is not just about a women of the same name seeking to avenge what Mr. Jang and his henchmen have done to her but, a journey of the mind, a venture combining fact with fiction.
Screen writer and director Luc Besson claims life was given to us a billion years ago and "The Grand Design," a book written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow claim our current brain, the homo sapient one has been in humans for more than a 193,000 years. Regardless of when our current brains came about, there's approximately 188,000 years of existing, yet undocumented human thinking history.
"Lucy," a three star feature is a well worth viewing.
