Film: Lucy (2014)

I've been a fan of Scarlett Johansson for ages. Unsurprisingly, the woman is brilliant really, and I've been long convinced she could helm an action-film proven easily by her character Natasha Romanov (aka Black Widow in the Marvel-verse). However, despite a film directed and written by Luc Besson the man who gave us The Fifth Element, The Big Blue and Léon - he hasn't been what he once gleamed of so vibrantly in the nineties.

Lucy is about a female (named Lucy obviously) who becomes embroidered into transporting drugs into another country, and the bag of drugs inserted into her stomach, which then bursts causing her to start utilizing her brain - more than the 10% we use (according to the film). It's problematic that most people know that 10% of the brain isn't the only thing human beings use, and the fact is that we use 100% of the brain, except at different times.

When Lucy begins to use her percentages, she of course does a whole absurd amount of things outside of her own body's existence. Basically your eyebrows go way up into your hairline, especially at the moments when things just try to be deep, inserting footage of animals and other things to further prove the deepness of the matter.

If the film wasn't bent on being so philosophical and tried to be the average romp it actually is, then we'd have a proper memorable gem on our hands.

4/10