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As some movies and movie times change every Thursday morning, after The Phuket News has gone to press, the accuracy of the following information cannot be guaranteed. For up-to-date information, visit sfcinemacity.com, or call the cinemas directly: SFX Coli-seum Phuket 076-209-000 and SFC Jungceylon Phuket 076-600-555.

SFX Coliseum Phuket (Central Festival) SFC Jungceylon Phuket (Patong)Juon 3: The Beginning of the End (T) 15:00, 21:00Lucy (E) 11:30, 13:30, 15:30, 17:30, 19:30, 21:30Lucy (F) 12:30, 14:30, 16:30, 18:30, 20:30Lucy (T) 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 16:00, 17;00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 22:00Phlae Kao (T) 14:10, 19:10Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (E) 12:20, 14:35, 16:50, 19:05, 21:20Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (T) 11:20, 13:35, 15:50, 18:05, 20:20, 22:35Took Kae Rak Paeng Mak (T) 11:50, 16:50, 21:50

22 Jump Street (E) 12:45, 17:50The Expendables 3 (E) 15:10, 20:20Guardians of the Galaxy (3D/E) 12:20, 17:10, 21:55Hercules (3D/E) 15:00, 19:50Lucy (E) 12:10, 14:10, 16:10, 18:10, 20:10, 22:10Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (E) 14:20, 19:00, 21:20Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (E) 12:40, 15:00, 17:20, 19:40, 22:00Took Kae Rak Paeng Mak (T/E sub) 12:00, 16:40

Scorsese to direct Ramones filmThe story of the seminal New York City punk band The Ramones will hit the big screen with legendary director Martin Scorsese attached to lead the project.

According to Billboard, the film is scheduled for a 2016 release to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the band’s debut album. The biopic is just one of many projects that will feature The Ramones, in addition to a book, docu-mentary, and theatrical play.

Scorsese will somehow have to find time between his Frank Sinatra biopic, a documentary on Bill Clinton, a 1970s rock’n’roll drama for HBO, and his Shut-ter Island-inspired TV series.

Charlie Hunnnam is King ArthurSons of Anarchy star Charlie hunnam has been tapped to por-tray the title char-acter in the upcoming Guy ritchie film Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur.

Reports say Warner Bros. Studios is looking to spawn a six-film franchise with Ritchie and producer Joby Harold (Edge of Tomorrow) set to lead the series.

British actor Idris Elba has already been announced as co-star. The film is scheduled for a July 2015 release date.

‘Inferno’: lights, camera, action ... The Da Vinci Code author, Dan Brown, will have the third part of his Robert Langdon book series hit the big screen when In-

ferno drops in 2016. Ron Howard returns to direct the

film, the third after Da Vinci and Angels and Demons, along with Tom Hanks who will reprise the role of the Harvard professor. The story is influenced by the first book of Dante’s epic, Divina Comedia. Production on the film is set to begin in April 2015.

IN BRIEF

Film Weekend Gross

1 Guardians of the Galaxy $22.2M $280.5M

2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $15.7M $166.4M

3 If I Stay $11.6M $32.2M

4 Let’s Be Cops $10.6M $59.7M

5 As Above, So Below $10.3M $10.3M

6 The November Man $10.2M $11.9M

7 When the Game Stands Tall $8M $18.7M

8 The Giver $6.9M $33.1M

9 The Hundred-Foot Journey $6.3M $41.1M

10 The Expendables 3 $4.6M $34.2M

US BOX OFFICE TOP 10

Great start for hot messFILM REVIEWJP Mestanzaeditor2@classactmedia.co.th

Starring: Scarlett Johansson,Morgan Freeman,Choi Min-Sik,and Amr Waked.Director:Luc BessonRunning time:89 minutes

By the end of the film,

Lucy falls victim to a thin plot and higher ambitions. sings on the history and role of human existence, betrays it’s action-film beginning.

It’s difficult to trash a movie that starts out with one of the (for lack of a better word) coolest scenes since the opening of the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. But the premise of Lucy is, while a great one on paper, is still a bit off with too much focus given to the action and not enough on actual story

structure. Walking out of the theater, one could not

help but feel as though director Luc Bes-son – who created one of my favourite films in Léon: The Professional – wrote the script based off of notes written on a napkin while thinking of the greatest things he could put in a film. Besson gave these notes a name and Lucy is what we got.

The film revolves around 25-year-old Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), an American living in Taiwan who is eventually tricked into be-coming a drug mule by her boyfriend. When things go wrong, a drug lord named Mr Jang orders bags of a special new drug – dubbed CPH4 – to be sewn into her abdomen. The same thing happens to three other people.

When one of Mr Jang’s henchman kicks Lucy in the stomach, the bag breaks and the drug is released into her system. As a reuslt, she begins acquiring increasingly powerful and enhanced physical and mental capa-bilities, telepathy, telekinesis, mental time

travel, and she can choose not to feel pain or other discomforts, in addition to other special abilities.

Over time, these powers grow and, with the help of a local police captain and a sci-entist, she sets out to find the other three people with the drug and capture Mr Jang.

My problem with this film is this: as the film goes on, her powers grow and she be-comes devoid of emotions. Eventually, Lucy gets to the point where she cannot feel pain and becomes God-like, something that is dif-ficult for the audience to have a vested inter-est in since she can now go and do whatever she wants with no real threat.

There are scenes in the film where Bes-son’s avant-garde nature gets the better of him but are then put aside. This is jarring to the audience since the tone changes over time, and not in a good way.

By the end of the film, Lucy falls victim to a thin plot and higher ambitions. Musings on the history and role of human existence, in addition to almost unfathomable mutations, betrays it’s action-film beginning.

While Johannson nails her role as a con-stantly evolving femme-fatale, the whole thing devolves into a hot mess of drugs, ac-tion, and existentialism.

LUCY