Lucy Blu-Ray Review — collider.com

Luc Besson’s Lucy (2014) was released twenty years after his movie The Professional (aka Leon), and at this point there’s very little through line in the filmmaker. Lucy stars Scarlett Johansson as an unintentional drug mule who gains the power to use more of her brain – the film is based on the old (debunked) idea that people only use ten percent of their brains — after an accident unlocks more and more percentage of her mind’s capacity.  Like so much of Besson’s later output, it’s a clever enough idea done well enough, and with a few good set pieces to make for a decent popcorn flick, but not much more. 

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