But whereas Lucy had a blast following its heroine as she avenged herself against her tormentors while simultaneously embarking on an unprecedented odyssey of neurobiological discovery, The Lazarus Effect just concludes that accessing more of your brainpower is the same thing as being possessed.įor its first half, The Lazarus Effect genuinely shows potential.
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Yes, that’s right-not even a year after Lucy, we already have another movie about a woman who’s transformed into a full-brained monster when she’s implanted with some crazy chemical concoction. Frank and company already knew from the golden retriever experiment that Zoe’s brain was likely to make new neural connections at an insanely rapid rate, allowing her to use more of her brain at once than the fabled standard 10% at a time. After initially trying it out on a pig, the gang succeeds in resurrecting a dead golden retriever, which Frank and Zoe take home with them despite its immediately bizarre and increasingly erratic behavior (naturally, the sneaky and confidential nature of their project requires the utmost “No, we can’t let anyone find out about this!” secrecy, leaving them entirely to their own devices when the shit inevitably hits the fan).īut then, when Zoe is accidentally electrocuted in the lab, a grief-crazed Frank crosses the line between just kinda winking at God and full-on playing Him by using their serum to reanimate her. How in the almighty fuck is this directed by David Gelb, who previously helmed the hugely acclaimed documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi? Is this all some kind of wise-ass genre joke at the audience’s expense? Did this crew of arthouse veterans get together to intentionally Springtime for Hitler a mediocre, PG-13 horror flick with a February release? Are we being punked? Had I stayed past the credits, would the cast and crew have appeared onscreen and shouted “J/K, LOL!” If anyone stays past the credits, let me know if this happens.Ī misbegotten riff on that Buffy storyline where the Scoobies pull her dead ass out of Heaven and she comes back wrong, The Lazarus Effect is about a group of medical students-engaged couple Frank (Duplass) and Zoe (Olivia Wilde), computer guy Niko (Glover), obnoxious bro-who-vapes Clay (Evan Peters), plus videographer Eva (a shrill Sarah Bolger)-who’ve developed a serum with the potential to revive dead lifeforms so doctors will have more time to work on them. Questions like: What the hell is the deal with this movie? Why the shit did Mark Duplass take a break from his self-determined, never-better movie career to make this sack of crap? To whom did Donald Glover lose a bet that required him to make such an inauspicious return to acting after quitting Community to focus on music? Was it McHale? It must have been.
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of horror violence, terror and some sexual referencesĪ number of questions crossed my mind while viewing The Lazarus Effect, or as I prefer to call it, Death Unbecomes Her. Screenplay: Luke Dawson and Jeremy Slater Starring: Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover, Evan Peters, Sarah Bolger
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