Let's talk about smart.

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2014)

Lucy is a very hated movie. I can see why. I also hate a lot of stuff. I like Lucy, though. I don't think this movie is smart. No one thinks this is smart. Yet that seems to be a problem for yet so many. Here is a spoiler; It doesn't try to be smart.
I think the main reason why people dislike this in the first place is that now they actually realize what idiotic means. With this movie, people can finally use their brains and say that this pseudoscience in it is incorrect and false. Doesn't actually work like this, 1/10 etc. That doesn't make this movie stupid, it makes the viewers stupid for not realizing that nearly every movie ever was stupid. This just was in your face stupid because they wanted to make a simple action packet about a girl who becomes god.
I hate most movies. Most movies could be good if they didn't try so hard to be smart. Hardly anyone is capable of smart. But still everyone ever is trying to create smart, so seriously, so vicariously. Idiots trying to create smart. That's our movie industry. Then there are the people who call those movies smart, the average fans. There are basically two options with movies. Either you watch idiots trying to make smart stuff, but actually creating idiotic stuff. Or idiots making idiotic stuff on purpose. Nearly everything that falls under the latter option is a comedy. That's what makes Lucy so original.
How simple it is. Mary Sue doing cool stuff. High cgi budget, some good ideas about visual execution here and there, one of the best pacing in movie history, a mediocre actress, some cool looking Korean villains. And what do we have? Movie of the year. Does every movie work with this formula? No, but this surely does. They could have ruined this by adding tons of details and back stories and relationship drama and some science theories that could actually apply, but they didn't. They didn't ruin this with unnecessary bs like so many do with their movies.
On a bottom line, by not trying to be a smart movie, Lucy became one of the smartest movies I have ever seen. Not in content, not in message, but in making. This was made by smart people, and I can really appreciate that.