What a mess

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2014)

Even without watching the movie it was obvious that Lucy is going to be far away from being a science fiction film. Best sci-fi films put a simple condition - what if time-travel was possible? what if mankind would be able to reach another inhabited planet?... and the rest is organically built-up over and doesn't make one question the truthfulness of the happening. Lucy would be a good thriller. The opening starts tense and holds for 10-15 minutes and then everything collapses. There's an interesting message film wants to convey - "the only unit in life is time, the rest is conventionality developed by men", but this message is covered with a big pile of nonsense which I didn't have interest in digging. All the science baloney Morgan Freeman is spilling out does neither make sense, nor brings a smile. But some moments I was thinking that Freemen himself is going to give under his silly text and laugh out.
From filmography's perspective Lucy isn't in a better shape. Movie starts and ends with something clearly inspired, but much more plain than 2001: A Space Odyssey, couple of poorly produced fistfight and shootout scenes, two minutes of Taxi-style chase and uninteresting sequence of disjointed plot chunks.
P.S. Can't recommend Lucy even to Scarlett Johansson fans. I wen't to the movie without any high expectations, only because of my pal being into Johansson, but excessive nonsense covers up everything else.