This movie tries desperately to be philosophical, but it fails.

Rating: 4/10 (5 November 2017)

SPOILER ALERT
The movie starts off great, with good acting and a plot that makes sense. Then, after ~ 40 minutes, the main character turns into a zombie and the movie becomes lifeless, predictable and boring. Admittedly, there are some good action scenes in the 2nd half of the movie, but they are of no importance to the plot.
So, what is the plot? Lucy is accidentally given drugs, which enables her to use more of her "cerebral capacity" and ultimately turns her into God: When she travels back in time, she touches the finger of the first man, just as God does in Michelangelos fresco.This is no coincidence; this very fresco is shown earlier in the movie. At the end, we hear Lucy saying,
"Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it."
Does Luc Besson want to tell us that we should try to become God, too? This makes no sense, since Lucy never wanted to take the drugs and become God. While becoming more and more godlike, Lucy loses all her social skills, her empathy, her emotions. During only one car ride, she probably kills hundreds of people, just because she is in a hurry. Does this mean that God is cold-hearted, without empathy and doesn't care about life? Lucy says, "we never really die". Even if that is true -- does that legitimate to destroy hundreds of lives? One death affects more than just one person.
The other characters were absolutely irrelevant. Lucy reads all of Samuel Norman's "research", but after that he is of no help to her whatsoever. His philosophical words impress no one, Morgan Freeman is wasted on this role. The only thing he does is tell us at the very beginning what is going to happen in the movie. He tells us that, when we unlock more cerebral capacity, we gain control over us, then others, then matter. A student asks,
"But what if, for some reason we ignore, somebody unlocked 100% of their cerebral capacity?"
My first thought was that we would become God, since it is almost the only thing left. I was very disappointed to find out I was right. There were no plot twists and no surprises. There was no character development, only character degeneration. At the end, Lucy becomes transcendent and ubiquitous, the ultimate step of becoming God.
Close to the end when the environment turned white, I realized how much this movie resembles The Matrix. Sadly, this movie can't compare to The Matrix in ANY way.