Lucy [DVD]

“Lucy,” is an excellent movie. It hinges on the assumption that humans only use 10 percent of their brains; it poses the thematic question, “What might happen if a human being were able to unlock their brain and access the full potential of intellect?” It then employs good writing and a fun plot to take the viewer on a wild ride exploring that thematic question. It is a very entertaining movie. In fact, I found it so entertaining and thought provoking that, after reading criticisms of the film, I felt obligated to write my first (ever) movie review. That's it – that's all I've got. It's well worth the watch. To the critics I would say: If we only use 10%, maybe, it's better just to go along for the ride on this one. I do believe my dog sitting in the back of my truck will contemplate and re-engineer said truck to travel faster than the speed of light before I am capable of understanding the mind of God. So, I would suggest turning your thinking caps up to the full 10% and enjoy watching a movie that explores what MiGhT happen. 17 Super Novas for the movie, “Lucy” ~ Thanks for Reading – Have an Incredible Life! ~

Love this movie, syfy thriller that invokes the imagination of potentially increasing intelligence to a level that's beyond time and space, but how?, you ask.... Watch the movie. The actress was amazing, I highly recommend this movie for the action, suspense and thought provoking plot and the great cast.

I know it's a little "out there" for many. But it's one of the most original concepts to come out of Hollywood in decades. Scarlet's portrayal of someone who becomes disconnected from human existence is excellent. The special effects are very much "acid trip" by intent because we are just this century beginning to understand the truly unlimited ability of a cell nucleus (read "Signature in the Cell"). If you like a mixture of action, science fiction and imagination, great.

*Edit update* My original review stands on film and seller. However if this edit is approved, I have to add thus. I had trouble finding this Bluray. I finally purchased when the listing showed "Last Item" as we often see on Amazon. So this cost me a bit more than I would normally pay. But if it was the last one, who knows right..? But last night I was looking something up on the purchase and I noticed there were 3 "Prime" New Bluray editions for sale at $5. That is endlessly annoying to me. I've paid double for a used version basically. And even if that used version was just as good as new, who pays twice for a used version of anything..? My complaint of it stands is with the "system" marking the "Last Item" for sale. On older movies that you actually have trouble finding, one might believe it's a last chance. When apparently it's just "Marketing" * Purchased "Used-Like New" and impressively that's how it arrived and played. Digital code, and slip cover included. Only thing missing was the plastic wrap of a "New" item. Shipped quickly, in a box. Possibly a media mailer would be cheaper? Over all the $ of both was a bit high for an older, "niche" film, but if it's the last copy someone can find and they're willing to pay, then I one can hardly complain for paying it. Overall I like the film. Not going to win any awards but I like the graphics, style and production enough to have it in my collection. Many people might call this a bad movie. But if you like this type of movie, who cares what they say. It's a fun watch.

Lucy is a movie written and directed by Luc Besson that plays on the myth that humans only use 10% of their overall brain power (which despite some humans trying to prove it, is actually untrue), and bases the story on what would happen if we could harness all of our brain power. Apparently, this includes developing ninja-like assassin skills, the ability to link with computers, etc. Needless to say, the story requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. Lucy is also a nod to the member of the extinct Australopithecus afarensis species whose remains were found in the mid-1970s in Africa nicknamed "Lucy" and whose species was one of the first groups of apes to walk upright. The basic plot is that Lucy (played by Scarlett Johansson) is a student studying in Taiwan. She is forced to become a drug mule to smuggle a synthetic drug that enhances cognitive function, and when some of it gets into her system, she becomes an unstoppable killing machine bent on revenge. The main co-star is Morgan Freeman as Professor Samuel Norman, a professor that helps Lucy understand what is happening to her. Throughout the movie, she is able to harness more and more of her brain powers, and with each increase, she becomes more unstoppable. For those who get the Blu-Ray, the movie looks and sounds great. The extras include a 16-minute making-of documentary and a featurette on the "real" science behind the movie. While there is some real scientific material out there on increasing cognitive ability, it is nothing like what is seen in the movie. If you can accept that and then just enjoy that it is a very good, fun action movie with a ridiculously attractive star (who has also proven that she does have acting chops and does not just rely on her looks), then the movie is enjoyable. If, however, you are not a fan of movies whose plotlines overreach too much and go way beyond what is realistic, then you will probably hate this movie.

My wife and I started to watch this 2014 motion picture on our regular Friday's movie night. Well, it is produced as the action story with a lot of graphic violence, first against the heroine and then also by her herself. My wife quickly could not take it anymore and left the living room. I remember that once at the movie Snowpiercer in the theater she left the room and waited for me in the lobby for the same reason. I had to finish it both times myself and I am so glad I did. I finished watching Lucy in my room. If you cannot take a violence, even it is reasonable in the context of the story, then do not. So I write this review without my wife's input which is always very interesting and beneficial. This story has much deeper meaning than what is just portrayed by Scarlet Johansson's fast moving actions. Yes, it is a lot about our human essence. The movie creators developed plot and story around CPH4 drug which is secreted in pregnant women after the six weeks of their pregnancy. It helps fetus or baby in the womb (choose what you like) to develop. What if at that time our soul just sneaks into our body as a gift to our being from our God or Source (again, choose which one you like or believe in)? The drug in massive amounts in movie was synthetized enabling our mind to accelerate the capacity of our brain from average 20 percent all the way up to 100, as professor in the movie played by Morgan Freeman wonderfully explains could be possible. No word about how CPH4 was made and I personally think that anything like that might not ever happen. But yes, our cells are individual beings and we have a potential to manipulate them and everything around us. We can know everything thanks to that wonderful gift received when six weeks old. We have to cherish that and understand that rising to such ultimate level is possible only through dedicated effort and unlimited love. We can then assert that we are God-like as Peter Russel writes in his book From Science to God. And then when we know everything (or everything we need to know) we perhaps do not need to exist here anymore, even we still continue. We wish to be back in our Source, our God Ultimate Creator and it is much easier to leave this world. Then nobody will deceive, condition and manipulate you again.

Awesome movie

First, I gave it 5 stars, to counteract all the crappy ratings it was getting. Second, 4 stars is how I truly feel about it. I liked it. I think the reason that it has received such low ratings, is that people do not understand what the movie is trying to say; ie what the movie is about. To a degree, that was probably due to the way it was marketed: "A woman is done wrong and goes balistic with super human abilities and kicks butt." WRONG. The movie mainly has a SPIRITUAL message. It combines a little science, and religious teaching from several religions to try to posit a reason for our creation, our existence. When you look at it THAT way, it becomes intriguing..mainly because so few people try to do this in films. BUT, the ideas are much higher than most people reach. Like total body fitness is more than most people attempt to achieve. SO most people only have a vague idea of what the ..little bits of philosophy are leading to...just like most people only have a vague idea of what they need to do to get and stay fit.( Even though the filmmaker put a ton of symbolism in the visuals, and a dab of science in the commentaries.) This movie is about explaining why were we created. It takes it's clue to the path that it suggests is the reason of our creation by saying, "Hey look, we have this huge brain, but most of us use less than 10% of it. Dolphins use more and have developed sonar. What would happen if we could use more? Were we supposed to use more? When we were first made, as animals did we use less? Yes. And as we evolved, did we use more? Yes. So if we evolve further will we use more of our brains? Probably. So if we did, what would we be able to do then? (the movie makes some suggestions in the enhanced abilities of Lucy.) Then the movie asks: Why put this use unused portion of our brains in us, why didn't we just grow it as we evolved, like most animals? Here's where the movie gets spiritual/ religious.... And it is probably because the writers were not clearer in their understanding that the movie was not clearer For instance they named the main character "Lucy" after the first identified ancestor of humanity It might have been a better clue for the audience if they had named her "Eve." Because they are sort of connecting to this and that in both science and religion. Eve might have been more appropriate because it was she that ate of the Tree of Good and Evil, prompting God to expel she and Adam...in the "allegory", so that they would not ALSO eat of the tree of Knowledge, and gain ALL knowledge so that they understood what God understood. In the "story of Eden"...(a story written in the Bible for children to explain on a level they might understand on) it explains to man that they were made in God's image. (thus the movie suggests...the huge brain, with huge capacity) And were removed from Eden to prevent them from accessing the total capability of the brain by eating of the Tree of Knowledge (in the movie represented by the chemical CPH4 -- supposedly a compound manufactured by the mother in the 6th week of the fetus's life in a very minute quantity, that causes the fetus to rapidly develop and grow) So essentially, in the movie you see the heroine be given the Tree of Knowledge and what happens to her. Like many religious writers have noted, that as you progress along the path of knowledge about God, your consciousness becomes higher and the feelings...both good and bad...of normal humans become much less. So that love, and hate, fear and pain; are much less. You see this reflected in Lucy. BUT though the movie uses understandings that many religious writers have come to understand...it also tries to create it's own new ideas of why we were made, what it all means. AND here is why it only gets a 4 and not a 5 from me. They were lazy. For instance they suggest that the purpose of creating man was that the purpose of knowledge is to expand. In their conception, God is knowledge. Then they say something along the lines that Time is everything. Time interprets everything. I think study of God, and spiritual teachings, and even philosophy show that time is an artificial construct. Philosophy argues, that what changes is not real, because what is real is permanent, and unchangeable. I am not a scientist, but I think along those lines, science may argue that Time is simply a measure that humans use to try to understand the world around them. The Bible tells us that God is present in the past, the present, and the future ALL at the same time. So this negates time as something that is real. That it seems real to humans is that our bodies have a limited existence as we are currently experiencing them on a physical plain. But spirituality has always indicated that the physical world is illusion and only the spiritual world that continues on forever, the reality. So in the movie, Lucy attempt to explain this as "None of us ever really dies." Basically what Jesus tried to tell us, and show us, with his life and teachings. So this is mainly a spiritual movie, marketed as a scary, sci-fi, slasher movie. Which it is not even that. There are NO nude scenes. Only a few sexually suggestive scenes. The violence is there, but serves a purpose more than not, and is not gratuitous, and not grossly bloody...like in Robo Cop. It tries for artistic qualities, and maybe it does OK with that for instance there is a woman giving a manicure? to the head of the oriental bad guy group...and she has on her back a tattoo of what appears to be Mary (mother of G) but where Mary would be there is only a skeleton. Then we see Lucy come striding down the hall in a surgery gown, billowing out like the tattooed picture. She is caring guns, and shoots through a closed door (this was confusing to me initially, because the movie expects you to just understand that Lucy by this time can see through objects, since she can also see the living energy in beings...) As the door opens you notice she has accurately shot all the mob's hench men and one is dying as as he does it looks like he is making observance to her as he bows down to the floor in death. (Thus Mary portrayed as death...get it...I know, sort of a stretch...sort of offensive) There were many more and varied instances of symbolism, trying to slip in little comments on what the movie was about, or what was about to happen. The movie also tries to get you up to scientific speed by interspersing a lecture by a neuroscience about the capacity of the brain. I think the movie could have done better without all the violence. I am wondering if maybe some of that was upped and marketed to sell the film to people that like that. IF so, the message is going to be largely wasted, as it was by the low ratings. The acting was good=points. The movie flowed well=points, and seldom lost interest=points, except initially while Lucy argued with the man that wanted her to take a case in to the oriental group..but is attention getting enough so you could watch it a few more times. Where it probably lost points for most people was in confusion. Confusion of those there for blood and guts ...why it was not more of that and sex...and confusion of the sci fi group trying to understand the science...and irritation of the spiritual at some just lazy thinking. Where it picked up points, is that for many movies,ANY attempt at thinking is rare.