Okay, I had to get that off my chest. "Humans only use 10% of their brains" is a major portion of the trailer - bosh! The one below has a similar line in it, but I'm cursed with the hulu one.
That should say it all. It's the difference between sci-fi and SF. Now sci-fi can be a real hoot and an excellent way to spend a saturday night (Besson's 'Fifth Element' definitely fits the definition of 'guilty pleasure') but don't go in expecting any level of scientific rigor
Based on the previews, Lucy appears to be what Besson does best - an action film. Like Fifth Element, it too is dressed out in a science fiction costume. This is opposed to something like Elysium, which was the opposite - that film had good SF underpinnings but masqueraded as an action film.
I only get 'cranky' about a movie's 'science problems' when they present them as science. It doesn't look like Lucy is doing that at all ... it looks a lot more like fantasy masquerading as SF <wink>
Of course they had to mention the 10% thing! How else could the 'build' the suspense for the 'what happens at 100%' question <g>
And to be honest, I kind of like the basic 'premise' ... even if I am less than thrilled with the 'how we got there' part. I had not seen the whole 'she was a drug courier' part until the preview above. I would have thought a 'government experiment gone wrong' scenario would have worked better, but ... what can ya do. 'They' aren't smart enough to pay me tons of money to consult on these things <weg>
My only problem with that ... and I say that =not= having seen the movie yet ... is the 'contrived' nature. Who are these people, how do they have this 'drug', why do they need to 'smugle' it? In the previews they show a =lot= of the stuff ... not just a sample.
But again, that is based just on what they chose to show in the trailer. Only after watching the movie will I know for sure <g>
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