Lucy - 2014

 

This was rather cool. This is not a revenge movie, and even though there’s quite some action it’s not a normal action movie, it’s more like a visionary movie about what the mind could do if we could access all of it. I rather liked this, that she didn’t go all power-crazy, nor did she go bad. She tried to do a good thing, whatever she could in the time she had.

Lucy is a student and lately she started going out with Richard. Now he asks her to help him by delivering a case in a hotel. She wants to go home but he insists, he admits he gets paid 1000$ to make the delivery, says he thinks the case contains documents, then he says he can’t do it himself because he did it already a dozen times, but still she wants to go home, so he handcuffs her to the case forcing her to do it. She should just give the case to a Mr Jang, but then Richard (who is outside) is shot dead and she’s taken by some frightening men. She’s brought to a room where it appears two people are already dead. The men there speak Korean, and insist she herself opens the case while they keep well away from it. She opens it and it seems everything’s ok, it’s got what the man wanted. It’s some kind of blue stuff, a drug. They knock her out and when she wakes up she discovers they put that new drug in her stomach, to carry.

A few men got the same treatment, they’re supposed to smuggle the drug into Europe where it will be taken back from them.

It’s not clear to me why, next thing she knows she’s tied up in front of a man who touches her, and when she shows rejection he kicks her in the stomach. 

The drugs get into her, she starts convulsing, her eyes become blue. She passed out but now she wakes up in the same cell, but she acts differently. With just a few precise movements, she frees herself, shoots five people there, eats, takes a bullet out of her shoulder with her fingers - I didn’t even see her getting shot.

She takes all weapons she can see in a bag, wears a jacket that is just her size, shoots another man and takes a taxi. She enters a hospital with a gun in hand, shoots a patient after seeing his x-rays, saying he’d have died anyway, and has a doctor take the drug out of her stomach. She calls her mom to say she can feel everything: space, air, vibrations, gravity, the rotation of the Earth… 

The doctor takes a packet of drugs out and tells her it is the substance that gives a foetus the energy to form its bones. She has a synthetic version of it inside her. In a much, much bigger quantity.

Who knows how, but Lucy knows where Mr Jang is and shoots all his men in her path, enters his royal suite, shoots everyone there but the tattoo artist. She touches Mr Jang’s forehead and can see his memories, where she finds all the information she wanted: the other drug carriers went to Berlin, Paris and Rome.

I don’t know why but she leaves Jang alive.

She finds professor Norman who studies the brain and calls him, appears on his tv set, and tells him what she absorbed will let her use 100% of her brain. She’ll probably die in 24 hours.

She’s now at 28%, she feels no fear, no pain, no desire. She can control a few things, like tvs and phones and radios. He tells her that the higher purpose of every species is to pass on all knowledge. 

She can change her hair at will, she controls her metabolism. She calls a French cop to give him the information on the drug carriers. All three carriers are caught at the airports.

At 40% she spits some of her teeth and starts dissolving. She takes more drugs.

At 50% she wakes up on a hospital bed. She has cops pass out simply by raising her finger.

A Korean man shoots the cops to take the drugs out of those men.

At 60% she can move guns, and people, with her mind. She takes the drugs and wants the cop to go with her - it seems , as a reminder of humanity.

She goes to talk to professor Norman and his colleagues. She tells the stuff, knowledge. 

An army of Korean men at Jang’s orders arrive. Lucy has all the remaining drugs, put inside of her.

At 70% she joins herself to their computers, all their machines, like she’s absorbing it all.

At 80% she sort of makes a new-generation computer. 

At 90% space has no meaning anymore, and she can be everywhere she wants, even move time back and forth.

At 99% Jang is about to shoot her in the head while she ‘watches the big bang’.

At 100%, he shoots her but she’s not there anymore. The cop shoots Jang. She gives a pendrive to Norman and I Am Everywhere appears on the cops phone. The end.

Lucy - Scarlett Johansson

Professor Norman - Morgan Freeman

Mr Jang - Choi Min-Sik

Pierre Del Rio (the cop) - Amr Waked