Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:26:34 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Lucy: The Dumbest Movie Ever Made About Brain Capacity
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I am *so* going to miss this movie, and I've already washed my hair today....

Excerpt:
Every now and then a movie comes along that\342\200\231s so beyond-the-pale sloppy,
so disastrous in both conceit and execution, that it simply defies
conventional analysis. It happened with The Happening. There was something
unspeakably wrong with The Words. And Broken City was utterly beyond
repair.

So, too, with Lucy, writer/director/producer Luc Besson\342\200\231s mind-bendingly
miscalculated sci-fi vehicle for Scarlett Johansson. In its defense, I can
offer only that Johansson is a moderately charismatic presence (despite
playing a character who barely qualifies as a character) and that the film
clocks in at a mercifully brief 89 minutes. That said, the sheer quantity
of inanity that Besson squeezes into his limited screen time beggars that
of awful movies of substantially greater length.

Consequently, what follows is not a review but a spoilereview. If you are
genuinely considering watching Lucy\342\200\224and I urgently recommend that you
reconsider\342\200\224you should stop reading now. If, by contrast, you plan to give
the movie a pass and would like to have your good judgment ratified (or,
alternatively, if you have stumbled out of the theater bewildered and
seeking commiseration), read on. Because while Besson has made very, very
bad films in the past\342\200\224most recently, last year\342\200\231s The Family\342\200\224this is the
first time he has made a film so idiotic that the only way to properly
convey its flaws is to enumerate them.
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        mark