A huge turkey of a film, devoid of tension and logic.

Rating: 2/10 (23 August 2015)

I had heard about this film and thought the premise sounded great and once the hype had died thought I'd give it a whirl. Cast and director seemed top notch, boy was I going to be disappointed...
The first 20 or so minutes of the film are quite intriguing and there is much to like about the protagonist and antagonist(s) as the story unfolds. However once we understand what is happening the rest of the film seems redundant. We know that Lucy will deal with everything that comes her way because of her amazing powers (despite the fact she allows half the University staff at the end to get brutally killed why she casually chats with Morgan Freeman) So many plot holes, so much daft logic it's painful. The tension disappears at this point too and we are subjected to a paint by numbers formula that so pervades US studio films these days.
Scarlett did a great job and I feel her performance rescued this film from the toilet completely. Yet one cannot wonder how it got to the state it did at just past the hour mark. Morgan Freeman probably did a 2 week shoot, took the money and ran. The car chase in Paris was painfully CGI ridden (see Ronin for a proper Paris car chase without CGI) I care about it so little that I can't be bothered to say anything else about it.
Another one of those films that's only good because it keeps people employed in the film industry whilst assuming the audience are stupid.