Pseudo-scientific nonsense, A waste of time

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2014)

This is a huge disappointment for a Luc Besson film. The director of The Fifth Element and Taken. Lucy is a movie with a really dumb premise that has already been de-bunked. What if you can use 100% of your brain? Even if we only used 10% and somehow achieve maximum usage, we would very likely not be doing what is depicted in this movie. The main character is an American student named Lucy (Scarlett Johansson)living in Taiwan who manages to get herself in a drug trafficking operation as a drug mule. The drug that is put in her is experimental. After the drug package breaks inside her body after a physical incident with a trafficking henchman, the drug gives her the ability to do anything you could imagine by the time she achieves 100% usage in their brain. That's pretty much it. Morgan Freeman co-stars as a Scientist who is basically in the movie to explain the whole "100% of the brain theory" like a Science Channel program. I'm not even kidding about this. This goes alongside an action-adventure as Lucy finds out what is going on with her as the Korean gang that made her a mule tracks her down. The movie itself is short with a gimmicky, stupid premise put in with some action and even sprinkles of philosophical dialogue about humanity that's also present. LUCY may not be as bad as a DVD rental but I wouldn't waste time buying it.