Feast your eyes but starve your brain

Rating: 3/10 (2 September 2014)

If the drug in the movie is completely new, it isn't illegal. There is no reason to stick it inside people. We are even told it is naturally occurring in the body. The gangsters could just post it in the mail...
Lucy is one of those movies that is extremely enjoyable to point your face at. In many ways it is reminiscent of the Matrix, Johansson does her Keanu Reeves impression throughout and there is even a white-space scene at the end. There are gunfights and superhero kung-fu, there is also some reality bending pseudo science. However the matrix was pleasant philosophical plausible suspension of sanity where Lucy is just a Michael Bay style lobotomy of reason.
You can almost see the conversation which spawned this movie: Luc Besson being told to make a Superhero Movie because 'Everyone wants Superhero movies now'. Luc saying that he only has a stock gangsters/drug deals and car chases movie ready to go and then they just stick the superhero stuff on top of the stock gangster schlock with no one realising that the two genres make each other look bonkers.
...We are never even shown a downside of this substance. Essentially the movie is Evil Lucy preventing any other human from reaching their full potential while stupid gangsters, who don't realise their powder isn't illegal in any way, try to distribute their product for the good of humanity.
Still, lots of cool effects :)