One Hundred Percent

Scarlett Johansson gets implanted with this experimental drug in Lucy and instead of overdosing she just starts using her entire brain. One hundred percent instead of the ten we’re all walking around with. She becomes sharp and strange and stops being a person you’d recognize.

It’s male fantasy boiled down to its essence. Not just the woman, but the one who’s become impossible to reach. Who’s thought herself into being lethal. Who’s become something else entirely. The movie knows exactly what it’s selling and doesn’t apologize for it.

The premise is that you’re just unlocking potential that’s already there, which is stupid and wrong. But there’s something seductive about buying it anyway. The idea that your limits aren’t real, that you could just drop them and become more. That appeals to something. Lucy does it with chemistry. The rest of us live with our ten percent.