Every movie Scarlett Johansson does is definitely worth watching



Luc Besson's new film offers philosophical science fiction worthy of The Matrix, says Robbie Collin

Director: Luc Besson;

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbaek, Analeigh Tipton. Cert 15, 89 mins.

Lucy, the new film from Luc Besson, is about a young woman whose brain becomes powerful enough to see the world as it really is .

The plot has been inspired by the old myth that human beings use only 10 per cent of their potential brainpower – which, like all myths, speaks to deeper fears about the universe and our dispensable role within it.

The title character, played by Scarlett Johansson, is a student in Taipei, and when we meet her, lingering on the steps of a hotel with a dope in a cowboy hat, her smeared make-up and leopard-print jacket tells us she’s a habitual maker of bad decisions. Sure enough, she’s soon shanghaied into a narcotics-smuggling operation, and a pouch of blue crystals is stitched, kangaroo-like, into her belly.

But the bag bursts, an enormous dose of the experimental drug is absorbed into her bloodstream, and her brain goes into overdrive.

Side-effects include: mind-reading, the ability to manipulate matter at a distance, and the tendency to fizz like a human Alka-Seltzer.


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