The Case for Remaking Lucy

Lucy is the story of a young woman, suddenly forced into being a drug mule for an international mafia, who gets an overdose of a drug that expands her mind, making her get smarter immediately and become a super-powered nigh-deity. Based on the premise and the look of the drug, there's a good case to be made for Lucy being an unofficial sequel to Limitless, in which someone tests out a drug that makes them much smarter.

Both Lucy and Limitless have the same problem in their premise. The notion that you only use 10% of your brain is... I hesitate to be too mean about this, because in my youth I did buy into the notion for a long while. But, it shows a total lack of neurology knowledge. There is no such thing as a part of your brain that you do not use. That said, this might not be a problem for Lucy, depending on what the movie wants to be.

That is the first definite problem. Lucy doesn't know what it wants to be. Does it want to be a thoughtful consideration on a topic, like Ex Machina? Does it want to be an action movie with a semi-smart premise that allows for creative action, like The Matrix? Lucy doesn't know.

The next problem is that Lucy doesn't put the effort into either choice. A good movie could be both. An okay, but entertaining movie might suffer having either distract from each other. In Lucy, each failure distracts from the other failure.
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