In cinemas
now. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min Sik-choi, Waked Amr. written & directed by Luc Besson
Apparently
we only use 10% of our cerebral capacity and we all know people who use even
less than that! Luc Besson’s brisk, at times brutal, sci-fi thriller poses the
question of what would happen if we could access the other 90%. We’re initially
in Taiwan where Scarlett Johansson’s character is tricked by a man she’s only
known for a week into delivering a locked case to a Mr Jang in a plush hotel.
No surprise that it contains drugs which she and four other hapless victims are
subsequently forced by the ruthless Jang (Min Sik-choi, causally vicious) to
ferry home in their stomachs. Where the
surprises start is when Lucy is assaulted causing her package to rupture thus
filling her body with chemicals that start to expand her brain. Once she wakes
she searches for the other victims and the perpetrators of the crime.
