Rehash of old Besson ideas

Rating: 3/10 (31 July 2014)

Starting from the fallacy of its main idea (that people only use 10% of their brain) to the superfluous car chases, this movie is a rehash of ideas from Besson's better movies (Nikita, The Fifth Element, The Professional). It is filled with clichés and simply void of any substance.
All those unoriginal nods (that must have seemed like brilliant ideas--Lucy "the first human," the 2001 & Michelango's Sistine Chapel moment) didn't amount for anything and I kept wondering why can't the most powerful human do something good with all those powers, perhaps find a solution for the destruction we are causing to our planet? It's not enough to show what humanity has achieved, you must show at what cost all these "achievements" came, and Besson conveniently forgets these costs.
Three out of ten, because Johansson is always a pleasure to watch.