Lucy (Scarlett Johannson) getting kidnapped. |
Lucy (Scarlett Johannson) is a hard-partying woman who lives in Taipei, Taiwan and has a relationship with her boyfriend, Richard (Pilou Abasek). She has to work as a drug mule for a Taiwanese gangster and drug lord, Mr. Jang (Min-sik Choi). Handcuffed to the briefcase, Lucy delivers it containing highly valuable bags of blue powered substances that increases the user's brain function capacity. Lucy is ordered to do a job and after she refuses, she gets smacked up and gets unconscious.
Lucy wakes up in a hotel room with her stomach bandaged and a British man explains to her that a drug, CPH4, is implanted into her lower intestines and because of the drug's success, it is planned to be marketed and smuggled across the world. When one of the thugs starts kicking Lucy in the stomach in a secluded room, they cause a tear in the bag inside her to leak releasing the brain-enhanced drug into the system.
After Lucy reawakens, she frees herself after tempting and killing a man and gets one of the two taxi men to take her to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, she begins to hear peoples' voices and as her supernatural powers begin to increase and time running out, she is willing to find the people responsible. But, she contacts a well-known scientist and doctor, Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), when she thinks that his research can cure her problem to get rid of the powers.
Professor Norman (Freeman) and Lucy (Johannson). |
Scarlett Johannson's performance is real good as she is on a roll in her stage of the career with The Avengers, Her, Captain America 2, and the overlooked, but superb Under the Skin. Even though the performance is good, the movie is not an embarrassment on her resumé, but it is kind of a setback. Morgan Freeman really serves as a narrator for how the drug works and as a mentor to help her, but even though it is sort of a caricature, it is still not a bad performance. I liked Choi Sin-Mik as Mr. Jang as he is pretty menacing.
The first half of the film is interesting and fun as it reaches to the middle of the drug's progress as how she is able to use her powers. I already pointed out the second half's weaknesses and problems as it kind of turns to action-filled junk. You just see people shot and people die in explosions, and then what? Despite the solid performances and carefully, but well-done staged action sequences, the plot starts ambitious and fun but it gets ridiculously and laughably silly that it gets more difficult to care about the lead character. I wanted to have fun on this ride, but the nonsense just interferes my experience and thoughts to give it a positive review.
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