Movie Critic

Movie Critic
Devin L. Burks
University of Phoenix

 February 23, 2015

LUCY

For some months into 2015, this movie, Lucy has been hitting theater headlines across the world. It has consistently received diversified opinions from movie critics. From what I can see on the online reviews, it has received both positive and negative criticisms from all over the world. It leaves a lot of questions than answers as to why there is so much fuss around this particular film. Confused about what to believe in, I opted to watch the movie, albeit with an open mind.

Lucy is a Sci-Fiction film, filled with some action and adventure. It is about a young girl, a student, who gets involved with a drug dealing boyfriend. Her boyfriend asks her to do a single drop inside a hotel while he waits outside. But the drug lord has other ideas, he kills the boyfriend and forces the girl to transit his drugs, hidden in her stomach. The drug bag busts open and she is exposed to the drug. The content of the drug sends her brain into unprecedented over-drive, manifesting the real powers of a human brain. She acquires enormous supernatural powers; she becomes a great warrior, able to understand everything around her, ranging from languages, medical conditions to mind reading. She is also able to travel through time, from the past to the present day.

The movie is faced paced, quickly moving between time. The parallel transition between Lucy’s story and the simultaneous lecture in which the professor tells his class about how the brain operates is quite amazing. The directing is as fast as it gets, trying to keep the audience at par with the narrative. I found it to be a little confusing, that is, transitioning between time, space and the lecture requires an extra bit of concentration. The editing is great, given the high 3D graphics that it is built on even though the quick transitions are sometimes quite irritating to the eye.

The cinematography is cool, the movie moves faster than the speed of light. It elicits the thrills, which is expected of a movie fiction. It leaves the audience wondering what just happened, what is going on, and trying to figure out what is about to happen. Every thought of understanding what is happening crumbles within minutes.

The movie has no particular social context, the editor interchanges between scenes, and different messages in each. It is nearly impossible to relate the connection between the events within the movie. At some points it looks like the director tries to collecting different pieces of a film, attempting to make a reasonable film out of them. It entails a collection of wild geographic to past thriller series, quite disappointing given the nature of movies in the market today.