Not a bad idea but poorly executed with hollow characters

Rating: 3/10 (11 February 2015)

What would happen if we were able to use 100% of our full brains capacity? Well according to the movie Lucy we would turn into some sort of Jedi Master who can read minds, control objects and human bodies with the mind, suffer bullet wounds with no pain or weakness and eventually turn ourselves into some sort of spiritual being. We would lose all emotion and empathy; we would walk around aimlessly in a robotic, mindless manner and only be able to communicate using awful punchlines and mundane one word answers.
Lucy is a student living in Taiwan, she meets a man in a nightclub, dates for a week and is then tricked into delivering a mystery briefcase to a man named Mr Jang. Inside the briefcase is a new illegal drug that they want to get into the big European countries, the drug is designed to enhance the users brain capacity in order to develop mental and physical strength. Lucy and several others are then knocked out and operated on, a pouch of this new drug is then inserted into their lower stomach in order for them to transport it via aeroplane. Then came the point in which the story took a massive nose dive into a complete train wreck of a movie. When Lucy awakes she is informed of what is happening and is transported somewhere unnamed where she is beat up and repeatedly kicked in the stomach. This results in the pouch splitting and the drug being released into Lucy's bloodstream. What follows can only be described as one of the most ridiculous concepts and poorly executed stories I have seen. Lucy begins crawling on the walls and ceiling, has inhuman strengths and can read minds. As her brain capacity grows so do her powers.
Lucy isn't a superhero movie and it isn't trying to be but it feels like one but without a hero, its scientific side which it drums down the viewer's throat seems laughable and embarrassingly corny. It is impossible to connect with any of the characters, Scarlett Johansson starts well but then once the drugs kick in she turns into a robotic, dull, mundane shell of a human that merely walks around giving one word answers and really cheesy poorly delivered one liners. Morgan Freeman has wasted his time and effort on this movie, he has a backseat role and does his usual Morgan role of talking slowly and intelligently, which suits me fine if the movie is even half decent.
The whole movie just feels completely pointless, there is no character depth or development, you care for neither and have no back story to any of them. There are some huge plot holes which it seems the creators literally could not be bothered to fill and the meaning behind the story which they are trying to deliver is pointless and pretentious. The movie has no aim, the ending is awful and even as you are approaching the end of the movie nothing is building, there is no suspense or interest in what is going to happen.
To summarise, Lucy starts quite well, it's mysterious and looks very good visually. But the more you watch the worse it gets, things keep happening and when they do you question it all. It all feels pointless and half finished. I don't think the idea is actually that bad and I think they really could have created something decent with it but it was far too poorly executed.
First Half = OK. Second Half = Appalling.
The only credible factor about the second half of this movie is the special effects. Some of the effects look fantastic, a lot of time and effort went into them and it shows. That is honestly the only positive I have for this movie, well that and the short run time of 80 minutes.
3/10