A bizarre, sometimes interesting mosaic

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2015)

The only interesting parts are the ones dealing visually with the theories about increasing intelligence and powers. Thankfully these occupy most of the movie. The rest is some gangster filler with good actors that have nothing to do but look gangstery and punch and shoot. The movie goes philosophically beyond reason and abruptly stops wowing as a result. Also it does not deal with the obvious issue that this compound is now imminently available and many people can be like Lucy so now what, complete human crisis. It also bothered me that it's in the same vein as Ocean's 11 and Bourne Identity, rich people making movies about multiple luxurious foreign locations as if we've all been there done that. Most people are paycheck to paycheck and this jet-setter international shooting location style is something that is revealing about the ultra rich lifestyle of the movie-maker and his milieu rather than something necessary to the story.