Lucy is really a comic book hero movie with mediocre action.

Rating: 3/10 (30 April 2015)

First of, this move has ZERO scientific basis. There are so many things scientifically wrong with the story that it's practically anti-science. Here are some of the obvious wrongs: Apparently "unlocking" parts of the brain that we consider dormant can give us ability to fly, control time and move like the Flash. Lucy gets control of the electro-magnetic waves, she can therefore appear on a TV screen or a phone and chat. Even if she did have an ability to emit electro-magnetic signals, the TV picture is actually digitally encoded and it's more than just "waves". It means her brain would actually have to encode a picture of herself pixel by pixel, then convert this bit stream into an electronic signal that would be understood by the TV according to the encoding transmission that is specific to that region and then she'd have to do the next frame and the next, at about 30 frames per second. OK, I guess if she really had super intelligence it may be possible. But I tend to think anyone with super intelligence wouldn't waste time encoding 5 minutes * 30 frames/second * 921600 pixels (HD resolution) = 8,294,400,000 total pixels. Yep, for a 5 minute conversation Lucy would encode over 8 billion pixels. I'd think even a person of regular intelligence would realize she just needs to pick up the phone or computer and just let the computer do it. Oh and by the way, she is transmitting her TV signal from Taiwan to a TV in the US. One would think distance still matters. At the end of the movie Lucy develops a super computer that produces a USB stick and dissolves. With all the super intelligence, the best she can do is a USB stick... WTF?!? Lucy is now "everywhere" or is it nowhere? Cliché. Also Lucy has some strange religious undertones. Basically, she is a human that becomes god. So, it's both anti-science and anti-religion as well. Since, pretty much every religion would consider such a thing blasphemy.
Secondly, This movie is actually more of a comic book hero fantasy genre. A woman (Lucy) gets accidentally injected with experimental drugs which causes here to rapidly develop super hero powers. OK, now the story seems more plausible. Not in the sense that it may actually happen but at least my brain can stop searching for an explanation and just accept that blue powder gives humans super strength, speed, intelligence, time control, ability to fly, etc... Unfortunately, for a super hero movie the action is kinda lame and attempts to inject pseudo-science to try and explain what's going on make it worse and worse.
Thirdly, here are some notable quotes: "One plus one equals two. That's all we've learned, but one plus one has never equaled two. ... We've created a scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale. " Sorry Lucy and writers, directors. 1+1 has always equaled 2 and always will. A time may come when we start thinking of ones differently, perhaps multi-dimensionally but it will still be equal to a multi-dimension 2.
"I am everywhere." Can it get more cliché than that? And by the way if she is everywhere, why is she bothering to type in a cell phone? Can't she just speak out loud? Better yet, can't she just think it to their brains?
"Time is the only true unit of measure. It gives proof to the existence of matter. Without time, we don't exist." That is actually kinda scientific. Although is it time that defines matter or matter that defines time or do both of them mutually define each other?
"I don't feel pain, fear, desire. It's like all things that make us human are fading away. It's like the less human I feel, all this knowledge about everything, quantum physics, applied mathematics, the infinite capacity of a cell's nucleus. They're all exploding inside my brain, all this knowledge." The informational capacity of the cell is big in a sense that it contains the entire human DNA, immensely complex. But the capacity of a cell to contain abstract data is actually relatively low. Let say of argument sake, that we did "unlock" the cell's "capacity", we'd find out things like human DNA, human origins, etc... It would tell us zero about things like earthquakes, radios, or black holes.
"we must break through to the nucleus" That sounds so funny! I just was laughing and laughing! Still smile whenever I remember it.
I think I've broken to the nucleus of this movie. What's inside the nucleus? - Waste of time.