Complete nonsense

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2020)

Lucy (2014) is something in-between of a bad sci-fi film written by someone who doesn't know how the genre works and a basic action film with a very pretentious script.
Lucy is too nonsensical and not nearly grounded enough to be an enjoyable sci-fi film since it not only has no rules whatsoever but also breaks its own rules that are not even there (imagine that). I mean, she can manipulate matter, intercept radiowaves, see in x-ray vision, but she still needs to fly by plane, to drive cars, she needs the help of other people to make her a drip only to have at least 2-3 characters in the film.
She says she feels everything and remembers everything, yet she calls her mom to tell her that she loves her, even though she acts completely emotionless all the time. She says she doesn't feel fear and a couple of scenes later she seems frightened when she starts to disintegrate like in The Avengers on the plane. Inconsistencies like these just show how unaccustomed the writers were with the genre.
The film also has a drug lord villain who is so unnecessary and incredibly not threatening to her it just makes no sense (also, great job on wasting Min-sik Choi in this). They make parallels to wild nature indicating that she was prey for a predator and then she sort of becomes the predator, but not really and they never come back to this...whatever.
I'm not even going to start on the brain capacity usage, ok, a theory is a theory, whatever, but you've got to have rules in your sci-fi story or it will completely derail into absurdity.
P.S. Yes, Luc Besson, we know you love female heroines and stacking up police cars.