Loved it until the end.

Rating: 5/10 (13 April 2019)

The year is 2014. I've got a rare day off work, a free movie pass and figure a matinee would be a great way to pass a couple hours. So I look at what's playing and see "Lucy". It's a movie by Luc Besson which is good. I liked several of his movie. It's a movie starring Scarlett Johansson that I really liked. And the trailers for it looked interesting so I figured this was my movie.
And like the title says I enjoyed it. There were aspects of philosophy, science, some kick ass fight scenes and then came the ending. There are very few movies in which the ending made me angry and this was one of them. They could have handled it in such a way that would have been better but they chose to end it the way they did. I felt cheated by it because it was such a let down.
The story itself deals with the titular Lucy. She's a young woman who in order to make some money agrees to deliver a briefcase. But that's only part of the deal and she wasn't informed of the rest. Instead she's drugged and forcibly turned into a drug mule where this new synthetic drug is literally stitched into her and will be cut out when she reaches her destination. However one of the bags bursts and she ODs on it. Things get really strange and she starts to develop terrifying mind powers as she races to find a way to punish the people that did this to her and if there's a way to save her life.
We're taken on a ride in which elements of science, philosophy and what it means to be human are explored. A lot of people criticize Scarlett's wooden acting but this is explained as being her having gone "beyond" emotion due to the drugs in her system. And then at some point near the end it just takes a hard left turn into something I just didn't care for. I can think of a half-dozen different ways they could have handled it and gotten the same kind of ending but as I said in the end it just fell apart and I felt cheated. Even though the movie itself didn't cost me anything, I still felt cheated.
Personally see it for what it is and understand that the ending is really weak.