A well paced, directed and acted pile of nonsense

Rating: 5/10 (11 August 2014)

Now this sounds excitingly controversial, but it's rather annoying if you give it a second thought. At one hand there is nothing wrong with fiction and fantasy or a director at his 50's considering everyone as a ten years old child. (Or it's wrong?)
The movie is undeniably entertaining with a nice fast pace, and great cutting. The tension is kept through the whole film and if you like Bessons style you will appreciate the little jokes and comically crushing police cars.
On the other hand if fantasy and magic is handled like science with life changing philosophy you get nonsense out of it, and if the script in addition is full with logical loops, then the whole gets annoying. The more you think about it the more annoying.
It usually doesn't come out well when the director can't decide what movie he wants to make and as his attitude changes, some scenes are of a thriller, some of a comedy, some of a comic movie and we get clips from Morgan Freemans own Through the Wormhole with the man himself. Sometimes Besson wants us to believe and think hard (with rhetorical questions like "What did we archived as a civilization so far?" then in the next scene he wants us to forget all sense and just watch as our heroine dissipates "because under undesired circumstances cells choose immortality" (Simon says what?) or crawls in agony on the ceiling like a possessed bat because of a synthetic version of a natural hormone like stuff. It doesn't work like that I can't switch it on and off that fast! I won't believe to Morgan but get angry on the nonsense!
And of course onto that come the loops like: - Really no one figured it out so far that the blue drug makes you superhuman? - When it became evident, no one else think it would be nice to try it out as well? No one is concerned of the widespread of it, though it is well known from homicide-forgiving surgeons to undereducated mob leaders. - If she can control time, matter and her cells at a molecular level like an X-men all-star, why the worry about anything? We got a god. At least she is safe. - And of course no one makes a big deal of cops dying anywhere or cars crashing, random massacre in a hospital or university. Just our friendly detective is concerned a bit, while fighting with his best pals against a horde of equally expandable Chinese gangsters. (who don't have silly get out plans just want to kill the girl and/or die trying) - Oh and I forget to mention, the whole way Lucy get into this does not make any sense. I don't want to spoiler much, but but if you start asking simple questions like Who? or Why? then it comes out that its all senseless.
It's not the first time a film is tried to be made on the concept of an average-Joe (Jane) gets super-intelligent, and we face the problem that the creators didn't have any of that serum. In Limitless they at least stayed sober and tried hard, here they just substituted it with other hallucinogens...
Enjoy the result!