Lucy

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This film makes me hope that we never get a Black Widow film. I would give Lucy a 3.5/10.

Lucy sported some wonderful effects that gave the film a very sharp visual aesthetic. The music within this film was also very empowering and quite enjoyable.

My favourite actor within Lucy was Min-Sik Choi, who played Mr Jang. Choi excelled in a role that had no english dialogue within a film dominated by an english speaking cast. This character was incredibly strong villain material and I enjoyed him in every scene he was in.

Lucy was an editing abomination, the first half of the film had a cutting technique in which the scene was abruptly interrupted by a visual display that represented what was happening in said scene as a form of visual metaphor; however this idea was tacky and it also was dropped in the second half making it redundant. Lucy was poor storytelling, it tried to be overwhelmingly complex without ever being definitive or grounded. It wasn't remotely believable as the film started off with a weak premise.

Scarlett Johansson, who played Lucy, did an awful job in a leading role and appeared as if she were high for most of it; frankly it was over the top acting and an amateur performance. Morgan Freeman, who played Professor Norman, may be getting a little too old for the career now as his constant pauses between lines distracted from his performance. Amr Waked, who played Pierre Del Rio, was a terrible addition to the cast; his acting was sub par at best and his monotone voice was beating my ears senseless.