Fun to watch if you don't listen to anything and like stock footage

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2014)

The film follows Lucy as she gets super powers, kicks butt, and tries to find existential meaning as she unlocks her brain's potential. This sounds fun but the writing was truly terrible. The production value was good aside from the lazy stock footage. The majority of the acting was solid.
The huge issue that ruins this movie stems from writer's steadfast determination to hate google. The majority of the plot is based around super outdated, never actually true info on the human brain. The sad part is the writer could have literally pulled out a smartphone (or the browser on the computer used to type the script) and searched the lines that were written and found out the lines didn't make any sense.
Freeman plays a doctor that tries to convince his peers that humans only use 10% of their brain's capacity and you basically become a god if you unlock more. Listening to his monologue I imagined how silly he must have felt. I'm sure he knew, or at least found out, that the lines were silly and based on nothing. Then this info ended up being the plot for the rest of the movie.
If you can get past the whole premise being a lazy shot in the dark, you'll be joined by the most determined drug lord ever. The bad guy for this movie takes part in smuggling drugs if you don't know what a drug lord is up to these days. Spoilers coming: He's using people as drug mules and this ends up going bad because Lucy get's god powers from the drugs. Instead of cutting his losses and buying more drugs that he obviously had access to, he goes to hunt down Lucy himself (along with his cronies). This parts almost believable, but when he starts chasing her around the world and losing men it stops making sense. This guy wouldn't get to be a drug kingpin if he's this terrible at resource management and so silly he's going to attack a superwoman by himself.
If that's not good enough you will get some very generic wildlife stock footage to denote feeding, hunting, and mating and their current relations to the actual scene at hand. I'm fairly confident this was meant as imagery to make the audience 'feel' something, but it was so blatantly sludged in that it felt lazy.
Once you're done digesting the script you will get to enjoy some interesting fight scenes. The special affects and the 'kick-butt' scenes come together well and Scarlett pulls off a convincing god-like being struggling with such traumatic changes to... well... everything.
Overall, plug your ears and enjoy some clever shots of Scarlett being a superhuman.