Lucy

less (classic) besson and more arthus-bertrand, this patchwork mockumentary posits that ramping up our brain utilization to 100% would turn us omniscient, omnitemporal and superhuman. i enjoyed the segments of leon, taxi, 5th elem and borrowed matrix, oldboy, brucealmighty and natlgeog in this movie, but the (nonmini/micro)usb ending was simply banal. (you would've though that lucy would've transcended that towards rfc/nfc or at the very least bluetooth/802.11n.) read more

another film in the genre of 'fuck science!' that also simultaneously tries to say 'fuck yeah science!'. i think i've been spoilt by the raid and raid 2. i watch and action film and i'm left wanting more. especially when there's very little else to say about the film. there's a the basic strands of a plot but the dialogue is nothing to write home about and characters don't exactly act in the most convincing of ways. there's a scene where a whole squadron of police cars are pulling up. at the same time there's a small army of gangsters arming themselves to the teeth from the backs of their read more

comedy of the year, 2014 read more