Flawed yet enjoyable.

Rating: 7/10 (4 October 2014)

"We've codified our existence to bring it down to human size, to make it comprehensible, we've created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable scale."
The movie explores the famous theory about how we only use 10% of our brain. Our protagonist, with the help of a new drug, manages to use a lot more than that. Scarlet Johanson did a pretty good job as the lead, going from a normal women to an extremely smart and powerful being. And you had to have a wise guy to give exposition about the concept of the movie and who better to have than Morgan Freeman. He was, as always, great.
Now the movie had some really cool concepts and ideas, and some REALLY good scenes. But you have to be willing to apply a lot of suspension of disbelief because there is some really unbelievable stuff in this movie. If you go on wondering about the logic of it all, you'll ruin it.
The not so good execution of certain elements stopped it from reaching greatness. First of all, the whole Mafia stuff was extremely pointless after Lucy got her powers. They should have focused on her powers and similar plot elements instead. What makes it more annoying is the fact that movie was really short, about 1 hour and 20 mins in duration only. A longer duration with more emphasis on her powers, development etc would have made it a lot better, instead they montaged her powers in the end. Then, like I mentioned earlier, the plot is really unbelievable. Even if you suspend lot of disbelief, you'll still be like WTF in many scenes.
The CGI was okay-ish. Some scenes looked good while some clearly looked fake. Don't blaming it much though considering it only had 40 million $ budget.
IN a way, this movie was somewhat like Transcendence, great albeit not a new concept and stuff but not so good execution. Good thing for this movie though was that it was still entertaining despite its many flaws. You'll definitely have a good time with it and might even wonder about philosophies and ideas depicted in the film.
7.3/10