'Lucy' directed by Luc Besson (The Lady & The Fifth Element) has some very capable actors involved in it. Scarlett Johansson nominated for four golden globes, Oscar winning Morgan Freeman and the main villain played by Min-Sik Choi - four time winner of the Asian Pacific Film awards.The storyline of Lucy is as follows. Scarlett Johansson is accidently caught up in a commercial drug ring that is distributing a drug that is supposed to increase the human brain power beyond the usual 10%. After mistakenly having it leaked into her body, her brain power begins to increase on a path to 100%. Knowing this, Lucy (armed with new physical and mental talents) seeks revenge on the drug lord (Min-Sik Choi) but also guidance from a professor (Morgan Freeman) who lectures in increased brain power but he still believes it is only theory.

Unfortunately this film reviewer found that despite this range of acting talent, the film 'Lucy' gets bogged down in the special effects of increased brain usage and general slowness as a result. Yes some of the car chase scenes are particularly well staged which you come to expect from Besson and there are even moments in the early part of the movie when Lucy escapes that are similar to 'Nikita' (one of his earlier better movies).But too much screen time was spent on the changing brain usage with particular emphasis towards the ending. There are some light comic moments for sure but in the end the film does not rise to the level it should have.

Film reviewing is about trying to assess what the overall experience of seeing a film is going to be like and in this case it is unfortunately self indulgent by the director who also wrote the screenplay. Had these two roles been from different identities the outcome may have been different.