Okey acting, cool effects, zero focus

Rating: 2/10 (26 August 2014)

The concept of the movie is that Lucy (Johansson), a woman caught at the wrong place at the wrong time because her boyfriend for a week has associated with some shady characters, followed by some random shots of a mouse heading towards a mousetrap and a leopard stalking its pray (It's symbolic for her heading in to a trap, in case the audience were to stupid to realize it). But never mind that, because now Lucy needs to smuggle in some blue powder for the Chinese mafia or something, it's really never specified, in her stomach. While incarcerated with the package in her stomach, she stops one of the guards whom tries to force himself on Lucy. The guard, angry, kicks Lucy in the stomach causing the bag to break (you'd think that the people that's after the product would care for it, especially since the package causes people to "use more than 10 % of the cognitive capacity". Also use the force, change genetic DNA and a whole bunch of other neat stuff. Sign me up!).
A professor by the name of Norman (Freeman) is working on a "theory", Lucy finds him and uses her powers to confuse Norman by tampering with his TV, computer, radio and other household items. Norman, impressed with all of this, decide they should meet.
After trying to get a hold of the rest of the powder Lucy decides to take it all, gaining all knowledge in the universe, with the intended purpose to pass on the knowledge to humanity. In between all of this there is stunning effects, cool action scenes and plot holes.
I don't know where to begin, I don't think this is a good or clever film. The concepts are interesting but too many. The ideas presented therefor made me feel that the focus of the movie was lost, but given that the idea itself is quite preposterous it kinda, sort of makes sense. Either that or the movie was rushed, no focus though. All this while taking itself way too seriously.
But lets not forget the weird moments such as leaving the bad guy alone, two times (Leaving him for dead once with two knifes in his hands, and the other time while he's 30 feet away from you at the airport, seriously? You can feel everything but can't see or feel an angry person 30 feet away from you that wants you dead? Fine, whatever...), making it possible for him to hurt the people around you and possibly causing your "goal" to be stopped. Whatever it might be, besides doing the remaining drugs and downloading every bit of information. Which is presented like in the last 25 minutes, yeah... And other than that, how would every bit of information fit on a USB? And wouldn't the "modern" computers crash due to the sheer amount of information that it would hold? I don't know, and I also don't know why this film has such great reviews (To each his own) but I don't like it. I find it to be allover the place and too silly while the intent seem to be serious.
But hey, the effects are cool. And Scarlett Johansson is in it, but it doesn't save the movie for my part. So... Yeah, nothing else.
Bye...