Movie Monday 2/23

We had a busy weekend, with snow days (actually, school was closed for COLD, not snow) tacked on and a houseful of teen boys most of the time, but my husband and I did find time for one movie. I was pretty badly crashed on Friday (yet another yeast overgrowth flare-up), so my husband brought home 5 Guys take-out and a DVD from Redbox - perfect!

We watched Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson. She plays a partying college student away in Taiwan who unwittingly gets mixed up with some nasty characters. They try to use her and several other poor victims in a criminal scheme, but along the way, something unexpected happens - she gets exposed to a drug that allows her to use 100% of her brain, and she develops all kinds of superhuman powers. Morgan Freeman stars as a renowned neuroscientist who explains that humans normally use only about 15% of their brain's capacity. What follows is an international kick-ass revenge fantasy, as Lucy goes after the villains who did this to her while getting in touch with Freeman's character to tell him about what's happened to her. It's a lightweight confection of a movie, basically an action movie with a sci fi theme and lots of very bizarre special effects. We enjoyed it as a fun bit of escapism, but there wasn't much depth to it.

Have you seen any movies lately? What do you recommend?