You will need to use %100 of your brain just to stay awake!

Rating: 3/10 (6 September 2014)

Decided to go watch this movie as "Sin City! A dame to kill for" was not available. Oh my Lord, I should have just got back into the car and gone home. I decided to write this review to balance out the fact that people seem to be giving this a 9 or even 10 stars, with some going to the extremes to say its the best film they have seen (Really????)
First i'd like to say I've given this film 3 Stars for three reasons,
1. Morgan Freeman. Again the man delivers a great performance, dazzling us with his voice, epic timing and delivery.
2. Special Effects. Which are fair throughout
3. Scarlett Johansson. Pleasing to the eye, does a good job at the beginning but then boring throughout.
The movie begins with the question "What have Humans done with life on earth", and you would assume that this is this question that the plot is structured around but in attempting to answer this question the film veers drastically off course. We are lead to believe that Humans only use %10 of our brains and that all we should be striving for is more brain capacity but as Lucy receives more and more brain capacity all she really does with it is destroy every object that gets in her way (including civilians) in a linear mission to some how pass on the information she receives from her heightened brain functions.
The Character development is non existent, as a viewer you feel nothing for the main character. The best that Luc Besson could come up with was a 30 second phone call Lucy has a with her mum about how much she loves her Mum and Dad (This is just lazy film making). This phone call takes place just seconds after Lucy kills an innocent member of the public having surgery on the operating table, then we are led to believe that the doctors agree with the half assed reason for the killing and then help her with her own surgery.
The Film then clumsily takes us on a cheap roller coaster ride where Lucy receives more brain capacity which has unexplained consequences, such as telekinesis and interacting with phone receptions (What???). We meet more boring and unnecessary characters that provide no real interest to the plot and are just more meat for the grinder, before the film finally ends by Lucy hitting %100 capacity and it is reviled what Humans are capable of when they hit this magical feet of evolution???...... What is it I hear you Say? Well i won't spoil the end but believe me that you are just left with an unbelievable feeling that you are expected to believe this "God awful tripe" is what Humans should be striving for.
The film ends with some really good special effects but fails miserably to convey its message to the audience. If this is what happens to me and everyone else when we reach higher capacity then count me out.