Better than I expected

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2014)

When I went to go see 'Lucy' I expected to see a good action film starring the beautiful Scarlett Johansson. I got that. What I also got was a surprisingly intelligent Sci-Fi premise with interesting and creative visuals. Even though Scarlett Johansson is famous for being a pretty face I think her performance in this film prove she is more than that. I suppose I shouldn't have been so surprised considering the Writer/Director is Luc Besson, a French filmmaker that is responsible for such films as: The Fifth Element, Leon: The Professional, The Taken movies, The Transporter movies, and La Femme Nikita (a.k.a. Point of No Return).
I've read around the internet that 'Lucy' is a dumb movie because the "humans only use 10% of their brain" premise is a myth. I find it funny considering all the other ridiculous premises that exist in Science Fiction. That leads me to the conclusion that these people don't know what Science Fiction is. It's not a 100% accurate representation of proved science; that would be call Science Fact. Science Fiction takes pieces of real science or things that exist only in theory and explores what that would mean for humanity and our society. Don't think about the premise of 'Lucy' as "What if we could use 100% of our brain because we only use 10% of it". Think about the premise as "What if we had limitless access to all knowledge in the universe? What would we do with it?" It's an extremely relevant premise, considering we are currently living in the information age and the ease at which we are able to access information is growing exponentially.