Discard the rubbish. Enjoyable film made for the big screen.

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2014)

Sci-fi blockbuster Lucy follows protagonist and leading heroine Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) in a fast-paced ride to gain vengeance, drugs and self-actualization. Directed and written by Luc Besson (director of The Fifth Element), Lucy delivers drug-fueled driving chases, visually breathtaking SFX and metaphorically significant stock footage. We meet Lucy, with a series of quick cuts of her partying. Lucy converses with her cowboy-hat wearing friend Richard, after a long night out on the town. He's bad news. Outside a business building, they chat about nonsense. Richard states he needs Lucy's help to deliver an important briefcase to Mr. Jang (conveniently, he's waiting inside that same building). ScarJo declines this task for the comforting embrace of her bed. Out of the blue, scummy Richard pulls out cuff-links and attaches her to the briefcase. Then all hell breaks loose.
Spoilers ahead:
While this is going on, we cross to Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman) as he presents his hypotheses to his peers regarding the limited 10% capacity that human beings supposedly make use of (*cough* bullshit *cough*) and rattles off the multitude of cool powers obtained if the capacity were to increase. Of course, this happens during the pivotal scenes, where the bag leaks, gets absorbed by Lucy and she transforms from absorbing the super-powerful drug.
Lucy, an innocent bystander, gets taken away by a bevy of Asian baddies following orders from the supposed drug lord, Mr. Jang (Min-sik Choi) and gets all tangled up in a drug smuggling ring as a drug mule. It all happens so fast. A bag of a new crystal blue designer drug is surgically placed into her stomach while unconscious. One of Mr Jang's cronies (an English guy, The Limey' played by Julian Rhind-Tutt) threatens Lucy and the other luckless mules that they must do as they're told, or it's all over for them and their loved ones.
THE GOOD:
Special FX. It's the meat and potatoes of the entire experience. Watch it for the effects and do so on a mammoth screen. The visual effects crew earned their pay checks for this project, that's for sure.
Super human abilities. Lucy becomes smarter, stronger and more bad-ass as she reaches her brains 100% capacity.
THE BAD:
It's a jumbalaya of sorts. Get a pot and just add a bunch of movie ideas and motifs. Obviously, comparisons that come to mind are Limitless (2011) and slight resemblance to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) . Okay, so that's a minus, but it's all been done before anyway.
Overacting. More specifically about the scene after Lucy gets kicked in the stomach and the bag leaks. She's transforming into Lucy 2.0 by shaking uncontrollably, you might say? Whatever happened to fade to black! Morgan Freeman's peer conference had a bunch of extra's hamming up their minuscule parts. Keep an eye out for the one of the professors in the audience nodding profusely and embodying an overenthusiastic portrayal of what a professor is supposed to act like.
Illogical story-line: So, either the policeman became infatuated with ScarJo or is scared witless, it still all remains a mystery. He gathers up his police pals to protect her in the end, after she killed a couple of people and drove recklessly in order to get juiced on her drug of choice. He sure was smitten with old ScarJo. Also, Lucy's choice to let the drug lord live when he was defenseless and a breath away was illogical and served only to further the 'run away from baddies' subplot.
You'll need to disregard science altogether and get comfortable with fiction. The premise of humans having usage of only 10% of the brain's capacity is a (popularly?) debunked myth for a while now.
Don't get bogged down in the particulars of the story and enjoy the visual feast.