Annoyingly bad

Rating: 2/10 (10 November 2014)

This film is about a girl called Lucy who ends up having to deliver a briefcase to a Mr. Jang. It soon goes horribly wrong where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug this drug leaks into her system and allows her to access more percentage of her brain's capacity.
I thought this film was horrible. Not because of the lack of storyline, character depth or even how ridiculously unrealistic it all was. Its because you've seen this done before so so so much better, hell even if they completely ripped off Limitless it would of been better! First of you get no introduction into who Scarlett Johansson's character is, even if you knew what she was like, even a little bit, you may of been able to care about her, what she did and what she was going through but they didn't. There is one scene were she rings her mum and dad, by far the best scene, for emotion and caring (be it only a little) for Lucy and the situation at hand. Then this gang of Chinese drug smugglers lead by Mr. Jang (Min-sik Choi) who's character wasn't as frightening as he should of been. This to to me seems to be because of some lazy acting on his part and just being in a really badly thought out film, this happens to a lot of the talented actors in this film sadly. Morgen Freeman plays Professor Norman and as much as I love the guy and I really do love him, he can play this roll in his sleep, its easy for him and it shows. That said he was one of the more interesting character's in the film. One of my favourite things about the movie is during the first half I think it is they cut between whats happening with Lucy and a presentation Professor Norman is doing, explaining all his theories and information about what's happening/going to happen to Lucy. I thought this was a bit of a cheap and lazy way to tell whats going on but it was nicely shot nonetheless. One of the things I wished they did is once she started to use more of her brains capacity we saw what she saw and why she did the things she was doing, they did do this but to see it in a slower pace and more of it would of been better. As you had some shots of poorly looking vain's and this drug entering her system next thing you know, she's a cold hearted killer! So to see her change slowly into this less human more robot like state would of been much better for me. Annoyingly tho by about 20% more she was already moving objects with her mind why did they have to do it so soon?! At 60/70% maybe, 20% is quite a big jump. I will leave how ridiculous it gets later on for your imagination. It is one of the few things you can't guess correctly, not because its really clever thought provoking film work but because its so ridiculous. She soon gets help from a police officer named Pierre Del Rio played rather well by Amr Waked he helps find and capture the rest of the drug smugglers to help Lucy reach 100% this gets her to help Professor Norman with his knowledge of the brain and universe in general. Overall this film was horrible this stems from terribly put together story, that has no character depth or growth during the film. The reason it gets a generous 2 star rating out of 10 is because iv seen much worse performances that unlimitedly were let down by the story and script.