Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Lucy 2014


Lucy


     In Taiwan, Lucy is asked by her boyfriend to deliver a locked case.  She doesn’t know what is in the case, when she makes the delivery, everything turns scary and involves Korean gangsters.  The gangsters aren’t sure what is in the case and they leave the room when they give her the key.  There are drugs in blue packages in the case and it’s a new experimental synthetic hormone.  Lucy is forced to become one of the drug mules with drug packages inserted in their abdomens.  They are given plane tickets to different destinations but Lucy is kidnapped and not taken to the airport as she requested.  She is being held as a prisoner and one of this group of men kicks her in the stomach and the drug starts to release a large dose into her system.  Lucy’s brain begins to increase the percentage of its function as drug begins to work.
     There is a LOT of action in this film, also violence and murder.  The drug boss thinks he can control Lucy but he is way out of his element.  Lucy is also the name of a very early prehistoric ape-woman shown in this film.  She was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle and she is a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid, one of man’s earliest ancestors.  Her skeleton was dated as 3.2 million years old.  The drug in this film is CPH4 and some people are trying to sell this online but it can be either dangerous or worthless.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

89 min, Action directed by Luc Besson with Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbaek, Analeigh Tipton.

Note:  Imdb 6.4 out of 10, 66% critic 47% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*.








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