As sci-fi thrillers go this one was a fun watch. Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy, a girl who is an unwitting accomplice in a sophisticated drug operation run by dudes from south Asian territory. The location is shown as Taipei but it could have been filmed anywhere for the ground shots.
Lucy accidentally imbibes a super chemical (the drug) that enhances her mental capacity beyond the normal bell curve - way out. She essentially becomes superwoman. As she achieves amazing neural capacity she also accelerates her own demise as the cells in her body succumb to laws of entropy.
Morgan Freeman adds color in the form of a brilliant scientist that is researching the human evolutionary path and the neuro-science behind it.
The two lives collide when the protagonist queries up someone with knowledge of the human mind and the capacity to harness it before her eventual and rather quick expiration, in the form of Morgan's character who is in Paris doing a series of lectures on the subject.
Then on the story is like any super hero movie with slick photog and CGI mixed in.
The French director of action movie fame (such as Taken series et al) Luc Besson, captures the imagination of the audience in the form of what-if scenarios that unfold as Lucy single handedly brings down the mafia operation responsible for drug shipments and in doing so also provides a massive brain dump of knowledge she gained by flying through the time dimension, on a flash drive.
Lucy accidentally imbibes a super chemical (the drug) that enhances her mental capacity beyond the normal bell curve - way out. She essentially becomes superwoman. As she achieves amazing neural capacity she also accelerates her own demise as the cells in her body succumb to laws of entropy.
Morgan Freeman adds color in the form of a brilliant scientist that is researching the human evolutionary path and the neuro-science behind it.
The two lives collide when the protagonist queries up someone with knowledge of the human mind and the capacity to harness it before her eventual and rather quick expiration, in the form of Morgan's character who is in Paris doing a series of lectures on the subject.
Then on the story is like any super hero movie with slick photog and CGI mixed in.
The French director of action movie fame (such as Taken series et al) Luc Besson, captures the imagination of the audience in the form of what-if scenarios that unfold as Lucy single handedly brings down the mafia operation responsible for drug shipments and in doing so also provides a massive brain dump of knowledge she gained by flying through the time dimension, on a flash drive.
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