Not terrible, not brilliant, just average

Rating: 6/10 (13 September 2016)

I have to admit when I first saw the trailer for this film I thought it looked fantastic, I thought about going to see it the cinema but never got around to it, quite a while later I bought it on DVD and watched it a few nights ago, for me I would rate it as average, Scarlett Johansson does a good job as the lead character of Lucy, a woman who is able to gradually use more and more of her brain throughout the film due to a potent drug entering her bloodstream, she uses these powers to go after the people who wronged her. The character isn't really someone the audience can relate to because of her lack of emotion and not a lot is known or hinted at about her backstory.
It's a hard film to enjoy because the plot is very basic and quite a few of the scenes could have been so much better, for example there's this scene where she is at the entrance of a corridor and there are maybe about 10-12 enemies that the bad guy has sent to capture her/kill her and he's at the end of the corridor, what does she do, kick their asses with some kick ass fighting moves? Gun them down with precision? No, she just makes them float about above her so she can stroll up to the main bad guy, it was a real anti-climax to film and the ending was even more confusing. I felt Morgan Freeman was solid as ever in his role but would have liked to see him given more screen time. In summary a film that didn't live up to my high hopes and a plot that felt bland and boring despite a decent cast, 6/10