U must watch this!! Matrix meets Carrie meets Underworld meets Limitless

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2014)

I loved this movie. Let me just get that out of the way.
I was left with a WHoAAAA!!! Feeling - which is kinda rare given the garbage that studios release these days.
Lucy is a movie about an ordinary (dimwitted, think Clueless) girl who's abroad and is partying her guts out and is somehow unwittingly ensnared by some ruthless Korean Drug traffickers who use her as a mule to transport an experimental party drug which is implanted in her belly.
She gets beaten/molested and the drug someone gets into her blood stream and gives her superhuman powers by allowing her to access all of her brain capacity progressively i.e. 15% to 20% to 30% to 40% to 100%.
OK, so this movie is by no means original. Limitless explored the same concept in 2011 through the drama/thriller genre - where a Smart pill allows you to become super-humanly smart and basically able to do anything (like becoming a prodigy day trader or best selling author overnight) - like that 90s TV show - The Pretender (1996-2000). The action in this movie is greatly inspired by the Matrix and Underworld - which also has a female bad ass action hero (Trinity, Selene) as the main character. And yes, because she can access ALL of her brain capacity she has telekinesis as well (Carrie) and can move stuff by just thinking it. It is visually as appealing as watching Magneto movie stuff in the Xmen movies. Makes you think, "wish, I could do stuff like that".
You gotta watch this movie. Watch it in the cinemas. Watch it on imax, watch it/own it on BluRay. I give it 8/10 coz the story was greatly 'inspired' from existing material previously shown in other blockbuster movies.