Lucy **
Dir: Luc Besson. With: Scarlett Johansson,
Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik. 89 mins. Cert: 15
Luc Besson’s new product rehashes 2011’s Limitless with guns, cleavage and
Malick-y pretensions, casting Scarlett Johansson as a moll-turned-mule
transformed by her wonderdrug cargo into a high-functioning badass capable of
taking down every last gangster in Asia. Struggling to metabolise concept into
playable character, this Scarlett makes an oddly dull and glassy-eyed subject,
as you’d be after regular doses of Morgan Freeman exposition; “exciting” shots
of nature are therefore spliced in, so artlessly as to suggest projection
error. Its sputtering eccentricity is preferable to the flatly insistent
chauvinism of those shoot-‘em-ups its maker has been subcontracting to others, at
least: it’s Besson’s most enjoyable bad movie in ages.
Lucy opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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