Completely different from what I expected

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2015)

When I first saw the trailer, I thought this would be some kind of superhero movie - maybe not saving the world, but some kind of origin story. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong. Apparently "superpowers" don't always equal superheroes in cinema. That's actually very good. I'm glad that this didn't turn out to be some mindless superhero action movie with ray guns and all that stuff, even if this isn't on the same level with the actually deep, astonishing science fiction movies.
Cinematography was astonishing. The effects were good, and most of the scenes were very clear, and it was easy to keep track on what was going on and were.
Lucy is slightly interesting as a character, but only because of this mystery around her. We don't know who she is, we know only small things that are kind of useless little facts. But all that interest I had in her vanished after she started to change into this typical godlike character who is in some way superior to others, and just knows everything, knows how to do everything, and then just sits there and explains things we don't know about our word so expressionlessly it's almost painful.
But to be honest this movie was disturbingly, well, racist. Mostly because of in the beginning this was a lot of "White woman killing scary Asian men". Come one, she shot one just because he didn't speak English, that is disturbing considering were she was.
If you don't think about the racist parts for a while - and I know a lot of people won't - this movie is pretty good. However, I think it might lose its magic after the first time, and you probably can't watch this every weekend. But still, it's visually stunning, interesting and worth seeing.