Interesting premise but flawed execution

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2014)

I never knew Lucy would turn out to be a nice superhero film. All I knew about it was that a woman Lucy breaks the barriers of human brain capacity reaching its maximum. Now the idea that having such a brain capacity will give you the ability perform telekinetic, mind control,control of electromagnetic waves and what not seems a bit too far fetched but it was fun and engaging to watch up to a level. I think that's how you might like the film, ignoring the science aspect of it.
The movie begins with man tricking his girlfriend named 'Lucy' (Scarlett Johansson) into delivering a package to some drug-lord in Taiwan. Then it turns out it contains 4 packets a powerful drug called CPH4,one of which which then Lucy is forced to deliver by placing the packet in her belly along with 3 other people bearing the remaining 3 packets. The packet leaks when the buyer hits Lucy hard into her belly and the drug mixed into her blood gives her the ability and power the whole movie circles around. Well now intentions are to go after the drug lord and find the other 3 packets before they are misused.
Once the search for the drug lord and drug sets in the action pumps up. We already have seen Scarlett in action as Black Widow of Avengers but here she shows the emotional depth of her character quite well too.Attaining such brain capacity and knowledge Lucy seems to be losing her humanistic ideals (which is again questionable) and she is having hard time digesting such power. Scarlett does it all with ease. Morgan Freeman is also there playing a professor expert in neurological science. He also adds some scientific and philosophical ideals into the film in the first half which was good to watch. Also some thought provoking questions about our existence of life, death,time,emotions and about being humans are raised which really boosted it in sci-fi department. But all this falls apart with an over the top climax going far beyond its reach. Also many of the action sequences become illogical due to Lucy's powers itself. She can hack into any system in the world yet the bad guys reach the destination earlier than her, you know just ensure there is final face-off.Actually Lucy gets a chance to kill the drug-lord for good early in the film but he is just kept injured so that he meets our heroine again at the end. Also it goes into full on '2001:Space Odyssey' mode at the ending which is supposed to wow us but up to the point things had become quite silly to accept any seriousness in the story despite the good visual effects and CGI.
There some points in the film where it is better to keep doors of your brain shut and not think too much about what is going, it will help to enjoy this one more. Lucy is weak on story and script, also tries to reach the stars beyond its capacity yet despite its absurdness Lucy is somewhat an enjoyable ride and watchable action flick. Main credit goes to Scarlett who carries the weight of the film with a fine performance.
RATING:[2.5/5]