anti-science fiction

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2014)

This comic book story of a movie was a terrible disappointment. The plot line was entirely predictable. The characters didn't get any chance to develop. Scarlett Johanssen didn't even get a chance to show her redeeming features. There are many aspects of the film that are just nonsensical, like the fact that the bad guys live in Taipei but are all Korean, or the idea that this drug is intended to be sold, presumably for human use, yet evidently nobody has ever really tested it before.
The lack of interesting characters and plot might have been tolerable if the science had at least been interesting. From the outset the movie is based on a stupid and false premise (We only use 10% of our brains). The classroom scene where students were asking questions had less intelligent dialog than a porn movie. The main role of the scientists was to stand around dumbfounded at the end, as Lucy achieves 100% use of her brain and, of course, downloads it into a USB key.
I apologize for the spoilers, but they may save you from wasting two hours of your life.