Lucy: The Discussion Continues
Brent and Nick break down Luc Besson's latest.
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Nick: I really, really wish Freeman and those other “scientists” weren’t in this movie.
Brent: Agreed, they are by far the weak link. You know Besson included them to give an air of authority and fact to his bullshit science, like they went through their Rolodex looking for someone people believe and landed on Morgan Freeman. “He’ll take a check and let us borrow that deep, authoritative tone.” But all those scenes do is take up time and screw up the flow. The only times the pace slows down are during those scenes.
Nick: Especially in the beginning, as Lucy’s life is happening and Freeman is quasi-narrating. What’s weird though, is that he stumbles over his words a few times, stuttering when he shouldn’t. If I’m going to get yet another Morgan Freeman-knows-all role, he’d better damned well be filmed nailing the lines.
Brent: He’s barely even phoning it in.
Nick: Even though there’s technically no real reason why this film took place in Taiwan[Ed. Besson said he chose the location because he filmed part of The Fifth Element there and always wanted a reason to go back], I’m glad that it gave them a chance to use Oldboy‘s Choi Min-sik as an unintelligible and impulsive villain. It didn’t matter that he barely speaks, English or anything else. He speaks bloodthirst.
Brent: His introduction is super badass. White suit, splattered with blood, looking bored with whatever horrible things he just did to another person. He doesn’t need to talk, he just has a threatening presence onscreen, an animal, visceral menace.
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