Limited, but not Limitless

Rating: 7/10 (1 November 2014)

All round entertaining flic. But You can't help but to compare it to Limitless because the entire premise is based on the same concept. And, if you saw Limitless first this movie will be a little spoiled for you, or vice versa. Actually I think Limitless explores the synthetic brain enhancement drug theory in a much more realistic manner. Lucy goes a little over the top. Lucy becomes essentially godlike, using her super power of psionics, stretching space and time to deal with her adversaries, whereas I really would have liked to have seen her just reason things out with superior intellect (yes like in Limitless).
Also the heroine, becomes a callus cold blooded killer. Thinking of nothing but herself. Killing a taxi driver because he was in the way. A person in the middle of a surgical procedure was dispatched with equal nonchalance. This characterization change did not work well for me.
I will say the beginning really draws you in. The opening violence, the innocent victim, Lucy in her moment of disappear was really played well by Scarlett Johansen. The come by chance reason for her getting dosed up on an intellect enhancing super drug was constructed well and really draws you into the story. I enjoyed the movie, would have given it a 6.5, but rounded to 7.