To enjoy, REMEMBER, this is a fictional story

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2014)

This movie is not going to be everyone's cup of tea.
If Oprah, Deepak Chopra, Steven Spielberg, post 2006 David Deida, Roger D. Nelson (director of the Global Consciousness Project) and a dash of Michael Bay got together and created a movie about the power of the mind or existentialism this would be it. I am glad I went to see it despite the mixed reviews it received. The important thing to keep in mind when watching this movie is that IT IS FICTION. This is someone's interpretation of what it would be like if it were true that accessing 100% of one's brain really did unlock "super powers". Also keep in mind, that although there are some action scenes, this is not what this movie is about.
This movie provided the perfect visual summary of everything I love reading about in regards consciousness, mind over matter, time and space, etc... I LOVED IT.
One of my favorite things about this film is that it didn't go deep in trying to explain where the theories of what she was experiencing came from or even trying to convince the viewers about this. Instead, in the beginning of the film Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman) is giving a lecture about his theory about brain potential and uses dolphins as an example (there abilities to use sonar), this lecture provides the "baseline" for what later in the movie Lucy experiences. The format in which the story unfolded was by displaying on the screen the percentage of brain power Lucy was using, then cutting to the scene and what Lucy was doing. I think this is the type of movie, that you leave the theaters to discuss with your friends, not one that should have a part II.
There were a few scenes that were not my favorites, but I understand why they needed to be included. For example (spoiler) when she is in the car, and wants to tune in to a cell phone conversation, she uses the car's windshield like a touch screen, to move the "circuits" around until she zooms into the actual conversation. I get why it was needed, to visually represent what she was doing (focusing on listening into the conversation) and also because it looked cool but Despite this, it's my favorite 2014 movie.