Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2015)

I think this movie proves that two halves of a half-decent idea don't equal half a decent movie.
I don't really care about the current fashion for checking with Albert Einstein or Charles Darwin to ascertain if far-fetched SF stories are actually plausible (witness film critics currently checking their cosmological constants in order to test if Interstellar is actually scientifically feasible), but I do care that the stories themselves have something worth watching.
From the beginning I felt Lucy was a messy, poorly paced, and (sorry Scarlett) poorly acted melange of confusing visuals, half-baked plot lines and unnecessarily unpleasant characters, particularly, and especially, Lucy herself.
Whatever residual sympathy one might have for high-tec surgical drug mules (which is obviously considerable) is wiped away in a moment when Lucy shoots dead an unconscious patient during surgery, and a dozen other rather wanton, gratuitous, and not even particularly entertaining "action" scenes.
The one thing I would say in "Lucy"'s favour is that the action doesn't stop, it is visually imaginative, and it isn't overlong -- and I did watch to the end, which is more than I did with "Prometheus", "Noah", "Olympus Has Fallen" or "White House Down" and all the other recent idiotfests that have polluted the celluloid in the past couple of years.
4/10, no better.