A Little Bit Too Far-fetched...But Still Entertaining

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2014)

I saw the trailers for Lucy and thought that it would be an interesting movie. It seemed very sci-fi and entertaining, so I thought to give it a try.
After watching the movie, I'm still a bit confused as to what happened. The character development wasn't the greatest in this film, and for the most part, I thought that the scientific component of the movie was grasping at straws. Of course, it's a fictional movie, but there's a limit to excessive stretching of hypotheses and theories.
The CGI was fantastic in the movie, but the whole purpose of it wasn't explained clearly. At the beginning of the movie, you start off wondering what is going on and what this drug does to your body. There's no scientific explanation for it, and the gangsters that implanted the drug in her body (as seen in the commercial) don't even speak the same language to each other (Korean and Chinese). So right there, you start to see irregularities in the film - easy mistakes that should have been fixed.
Throughout the rest of the film, you see Lucy using more and more of her brain's total capacity, and she completely loses her humanity and becomes a digital being, living in the cyberworld. But to what purpose? I still don't get it.
So my opinion is that it's an entertaining movie filled with suspense and action, but the scientific theories and story development are a bit underdeveloped and exaggerated from the truth. I give it a 6/10 purely because of the entertainment factor.