Eye candy with no past, no present and no future

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2014)

I appreciate the suspension of disbelief, when watching a movie. It's important when embracing each individual movie's reality. Sometimes, however, a movie sets up a reality so far removed from the actual reality, that suspending disbelief to accept everything going on, is near impossible. Lucy's premise relies on a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo. It was just too ludicrous, and presented in such a manner, that I had a hard time accepting it as truth - even knowing it was just a movie.
The premise of the movie what it is, I found, that I couldn't care about any of the characters. They lacked depth. The movie starts with the fully formed character of Lucy. No background, no way for us to related to her at all. And we're treated to a series of somewhat inexplicably disconnected scenes, with very little actual development. Sequences that were pretty to look at, but had almost no impact on the story or the characters. I couldn't relate to anybody. Or anything going on.
Luc Besson has made some movies that were unique in their own right, and movies I'll always appreciate. But this wasn't one of them. It felt empty, and when I left the theater, I felt like I had wasted my time. Like I hadn't been given what I came for: entertainment and something to think about.