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Michael Phillips, Orlando Sentinel: Movies
Fri, 07/25/2014 - 5:48am

After 20 minutes, 'Lucy' script stops living up to Scarlett Johansson's potentialLe schlockmeister Luc Besson has no beef with men and guns, or he wouldn't have made the "Transporter" movies with Jason Statham. Or written "Taken." But in the world according to Besson, older girls ("La Femme Nikita") and young women in wee skirts and stiletto heels, gliding in slow motion toward their latest deserving victims of firearm violence, carrying nicely polished automatic weapons in each perfectly manicured hand — that's the stuff, that's what makes Besson Besson.

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