Unlike its heroine, it gets dumber as it goes

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2015)

'Lucy' starts off with a bang, yanking you right into the story before you even have a chance to settle in. The first twenty minutes or so are a tense, white knuckle ride that makes a promise the rest of the movie unfortunately fails to keep.
Once the titular hero begins to get smarter, the movie she's in starts to get dumber. By the final act it completely loses its emotional grip and just sort of floats away.
It's certainly more generically entertaining than the similarly themed 'Transcendence' from this past year, but if you've had the misfortune of seeing that Johnny Depp turkey, you know that's faint praise indeed.