Plays like a bad Asian gangster movie

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2015)

The underlying premise is just stupid. "Limitless" was a film that was also built around the idea of accessing and using more of our brain's capacity. In "Limitless", the result was genius, which is believable and watchable. But in "Lucy", the result was supernatural powers like psychokinesis and mind control.
I would surmise that money to make this movie came from criminal syndicates in Taiwan and Korea. Perhaps this is why the movie ends up with Korean gangsters slaughtering Western low life junkies in Taiwan. A lot of the action depicted by these gangsters were simply cut and paste from the tiresome genre of Asian gangster movies. There was nothing original.
Were it not for its big budget and special effects, I would have given this a 2 out of 10 rating.