best movie i've ever seen.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

"Lucy" is more wish fulfillment fantasy than anything else. Wouldn't be great if we all had God-like powers locked away in our brains just waiting to be released (kind of a metaphysical version of a letter from Hogworts). Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) experiences this cognitive renaissance when she is forced to mule an experimental drug hidden in her abdomen by a vicious Taiwanese drug-lord. The drug, a synthetic prenatal hormone, allows her to vault past human (and physical) limitations and archive 'The Highest Possible Level of Development'. She eventually meets up with Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman) a pseudo-scientist and expert on the quiescent 90% of our brain while an army of the nattily dressed gangsters search for her. A massive gunfight (borrowing heavily from The Matrix) accompanies a trippy extra-corporal experience (borrowing heavily from the 2001: A Space Odyssey). Energetic and entertaining, "Lucy" is best enjoyed using only the right-side 5% of your mental capacity, but if you have read some of the many fawning reviews on IMDB and expect to achieve enlightenment, I suspect that you will be disappointed.

I saw this movie earlier this evening and I was empressed. The movie mixes in some science with action and the two big stars, Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, are great. Analeigh Tipton's brief part was a scene stealer all the way. A great movie to watch on a Monday night.

'Lucy (2014)' is a nonsensical, dull, frustrating and, frankly, pretentious sci-fi action flick that's a tedious affair throughout, one that consistently relies on annoying faux-intelligence and maddening movie clichés. To make matters worse, the feature ends, in a final slap directly from the director to our severely-underestimated intellect, by the central character using all of her brain power to... turn into a USB stick. I'm not joking, but I wish I was. 4/10

Nothing special to say about this movie. It just lost it's tracks as the movie went on, it became too much unreal, too much confusing, unlogical, delusional. As some other reviewer said before me, Limitless dealt way better with this idea than Lucy did. I liked the concept, but in this case it was badly executed.