Unimaginative and pseudoscientific cringyness

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2019)

So be it that "Lucy" perpetuates the boring ten percent of the brain myth. It's more difficult to accept the ridiculous and unimagitative depiction of a person who extends these ten percents. Somehow accessing her full brain gives her control over matter, neatly giving her the ability to overcome every obstacle (even the expendable evil Koreans). Good for her, boring for the audience.
Lucy's development fall in the predictable trope "higher mental capasity = acting like a robot". "I don't feel pain, fear, desire. It's like all things that make us human are fading away," Lucy says. But accessing her full brain would logically make her feel even more and make her more human. I'd rather watch an emotional roller coaster ride development like that than robot Scarlett kick Korean ass.
At one point she's about to disintegrate though, Jeff Goldblum style, and that's kind of cool. But in the next scene she's all right again. Phew! For a moment I expected some interesting development there.
"Lucy" is full of pseudoscientific stuff that doesn't impress at all. Like, "All social systems we've put into place are a mere sketch. (You don't say?!) Time is the only true unit of measure" is presented as Lucy's revelation towards the end of the film. And what is time, if I may ask? But the film doesn't bother to explore the concept of time. That's too heavy and untouchable for this kind of flick.