'Lucy' is a visually stunning, illogical mess

Rating: 4/10 (23 August 2014)

A synthesized chemical gives our protagonist a way to use his brain beyond his normal share. With that, he becomes popular and rich. Wait, that's the plot of Bradley Cooper movie 'Limitless'. Well, in Lucy, synthesized CPH4 makes our beautiful Protagonist practically "GOD". It means, she is like Neo without sentinels or Superman without Kryptonite. Yet, her decisions takes this movie from a mere 30-minute story to 90 minutes movie. Lucy is an action,Sci-Fi flick directed by Luc Besson, whom once I admired because of the movies like Leon and Nikitha. Fair enough, he made an entertaining flick, still a head-scratching, exhausting one.
Even before I decided to watch this movie, I read about the criticisms it was having due to some inaccuracies about some scientific facts. So, I left my scientific curiosity out of the hall. Still, I couldn't betray my logic when I was going through the movie. Take it, CPH4 makes a person invincible. It gives her x-ray vision, agility, even ability to time travel.Hell, I even adjusted to the idea that Lucy is the mother of us all, and she is everywhere. But, why would someone, who is willing to kill a number of henchmen in split seconds, left the only person who will give her a threat alive at the first place. Then there is the instant Chinese translation. At one point she shoots a guy in the legs because he didn't speak English. In the next moment she can actually read Mandarin from nowhere.
Granted, visually Lucy is a promising watch, and have some appreciable philosophical undercurrents. But, when a movie tries to play with a lot of cards inside a specific circle, the results will be more misses than hits. For Lucy, it was really a miss, which could've been better. As a final word, Limitless, even though shares a similar environment, was a decent watch. But Lucy here, makes Limitless an instant classic.