FRIDAY FILM BEAT: Lucy

Scarlett Johansson + Morgan Freeman = total greatness. Lucy has been compared to various films (common examples include Akira, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, The Tree of Life, Transcendence, and especially Limitless which also features the 10% of brain myth as a major plotline), but it has already become a success in its own right, with a time-of-posting gross of US$217 million against a budget of $40 million. Critical reception has been largely favourable too - on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 65%, based on 185 reviews, with a rating average of 6.1 out of 10; on review aggregator Metacritic, it has a rating score of 61 out of 100, based on 41 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews"; and audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a C+ grade on a scale of A to F. With that in mind, I urge you to go see this if you haven't already done so.