Could have been so much more! 1/2 half very good, then lost what it should have been ... along with its value

Rating: 6/10 (3 August 2014)

The first half of this movie was very good. The rest unfortunately lost itself with what, to me, they could have done with Lucy.
The visual juxtaposition of Lucy's initial capture with scenes from nature of an animal of prey running down the valiant but ultimately doomed animal was very well done, and served to heighten the scene. Everything was just great until after Lucy was first exposed, and the following pieces rapidly fell apart, leaving the rest of the story ultimately cold though visually interesting.
What they should have done with it, is have Lucy lose what we think of as our humanity, and normal boundaries of ethics/morals for her own personal survival, without regard for what that would take. Not to be killing for killings-sake, but merely that her new existence in nature would simply require her to "do what needed to be done".
These needs would then put her at odds not merely with the drug folks but also the authorities. Then this would be a nice illustration of what Morgan Freeman's diatribe of how some organisms leverage self- sufficiency vs. most - leveraging reproduction. Lucy could have then been driven to need the extra drugs, and gone off on a multi-country violent spree to gain the other three sachets, leaving a trail in her wake of bodies and dna. Then, forcing the authorities to track her down before she could attain the last - before she could reach 100% and then be unstoppable.
Ultimately, Lucy should have ended up being, through no fault of her own, a tragic figure who must be hunted down and killed before she became too powerful and jeopardized humanity and society at large.
A real shame that this film missed the mark, and could have been SO MUCH MORE, with their initial premise.