I Don’t Love Lucy: The Bad Science in the Sci-Fi Thriller

Now there are three Lucys I have to keep straight: The 3.2 million year old Australopithecus unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974; the eponymous star of the inexplicably celebrated 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy; and, most recently, the lead character—played by Scarlett Johansson—of the new sci-fi thriller straightforwardly titled Lucy. Going by intellectual heft alone, I’ll pick the millions-year-old bones. MoreThe NFL Needs to Take Domestic Violence SeriouslyThe Beta Marriage: How Millennials Approach ‘I Do’Sterling Lawyer: Wife's 'Hands Are Filthy, Filthy!' NBC NewsMore Carnage: Strikes Hit Refugee Camp and Near Gaza Hospital NBC News'Fundamental Right': Appeals Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban NBC NewsThe premise of the movie, such as it is, is that Lucy, a drug mule living in Taiwan, is exposed to a bit of high-tech pharma that suddenly increases her brain power, giving her the ability to outwit entire police departments, travel through time and space, dematerialize at will and yada-yada-yada, cut to gunfights, special effects and a portentous message about, well, something or other. Popular Among Subscribers Ending the War on Fat Subscribe The End of IraqHow Many People Watched Orange Is the New Black? No One KnowsThe movie poster’s teaser line? “The average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%.” Let’s forgive the poster its pronoun problem (the averag...
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