Very promising start, fails to deliver.

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2014)

So I went to see this movie after reading a few reviews that recommended it saying it was "Different" , I'm not sure what they meant and I did not feel the feel was very innovative.
Basically the whole movie revolves around this theory that humans only use 10% of their brain capacity and what would happen if we somehow unlocked our full potential. Miraculously this girl Lucy (Scarlet Johansson) Manages to accomplish just that, mostly by a series of misfortunes.
The whole prospect is very promising, I mean think of all the possibilities... Morgan freeman explains the various stages of the transition from 10% to 100% which happens gradually to Lucy, and they include: control of her own body, of other peoples' bodies, control of matter she is even able to manipulate time itself (and of course time travel). When she first starts the process it looks like we might be in for some serious action as she pounds on the baddies who had her imprisoned (and were about to take advantage of her sexually none the less!). However it soon turns into Lucy becoming a stare-ahead unable-to-feel-emotion thing who despite being able to understand all languages perfectly still communicates solely in English and even shoots some Asian drivers for not understanding her. From then on her only way of dealing with problems is to wave her hands about which causes people to either fall unconscious or get flung across the room. This becomes tiring very fast and by the end of the movie you will find yourself wishing you could fast forward time like her.
The Film leaves many unanswered questions such as:
-Wouldn't it have been much cooler if she had learned martial arts and actually fought some of her enemies? Perhaps throw in some of that time controlling power to make it even more interesting? Some matrix-like effects? Perhaps Scarlet couldn't handle all that.
-If Lucy can time travel why not go back to the start of the movie and prevent all of this horrible things from happening to her? -Why does she need to build a super computer only for it to spawn a flash drive? Couldn't she have spawned the flash drive and saved herself all the trouble?
-Why does she need to make that flash drive anyway? In the end she basically becomes God and is omnipresent and I'm guessing immortal. So if she ever felt the need to share any information with anyone, couldn't she just tell them herself?