Don't Waste Time On 'Lucy'

Rating: 5/10 (26 July 2014)

'Lucy' is a sci-fi film directed by Luc Besson and stars the beautiful Scarlett Johansson. Johansson plays 'Lucy', a normal woman who is unwillingly brought into a drug ring. During this process, Lucy becomes part of an experiment for this new drug and gets injected with it. These drugs allow Lucy to control her own brain.
I'd like to start off first by saying, this movie served no purpose. The plot is absent and there is hardly anything even decent about it. One of the only decent aspects of the film came from Johansson. Her performance was okay, considering how the entire film played out, but nothing like you would expect from an actress like her. One other thing that this film had going for it was the score. The score served its purpose in certain parts, however in many parts the score was completely out of touch with the movie. The last decent thing about the film was dialogue. There were some short glimpses where the dialogue was good and the rest of the dialogue was bad. About half the movie is in Chinese and there are no subtitles, so it is hard to even tell what is going on.
'Lucy' is a short 1 hour and 30 minutes, but it is so uninteresting that it just drags on. The movie felt very rushed, but I was fine with that because I could not sit through another minute of it. By looking at the trailer, you would probably guess that Morgan Freeman is a main character. WRONG! Freeman is hardly in the film and when he is in it he is shockingly not very good. It seemed as if every five minutes there would be another character thrown into the movie, but there is never any insight on these characters, they are just kind of thrown in there. I actually do not even believe they mentioned the names of most of the characters.
The editing in this film is horrible, very choppy and out of sync. The CGI in this film is horrendous, almost looked as if it were from the Discovery Channel or something. Ironically, due to horrible editing, I felt as if I were watching the Discovery Channel. Morgan Freeman's god-like voice would come on talking about species and space and there would be random nature clips as he spoke.
The worst thing about this film may have been the ending. Lucy finally reaches 100% percent brain usage and the way the film is shot and the score is playing, you feel as if something outstanding is about to happen; but it all falls flat. Then the actual ending the the film just leaves you disappointed and feeling scammed. As this film ended the entire theater was in awe of how terrible the movie was. Nothing but negativity coming from the mouths of angry movie watchers.
I really tried to like this movie and think of ways that it could have worked, but there was no possible way. The film was very rushed, served no purpose and I do not see how anyone can enjoy it. My advice to everyone would be to save your money and see something else. I gave 'Lucy' a 5/10 stars, but I was contemplating on giving a 4/10 stars.