I guess, either you gonna love it or hate it

Rating: 10/10 (11 October 2014)

Wow, so many contradictory opinions... I gave this movie 10 out of 10, mainly because it scored so low, and I just don't get why. But that fact put aside, I would've still given it at least 9.
Yes, it rotates around the famously misleading theory that humans use only 5-10% of their brains. Although saying that, I keep thinking about the book "My stroke of insight" written by a brain scientist who suffered a stroke in her left hemisphere. What she wrote about her suddenly emerged ability to feel herself united with everything around her... isn't that something very few people among us can tell about themselves? Anyway, away from the book, back to the movie.
This misleading assumption put aside, the movie is unbelievable. If you are ready to tell your internal voice of a skeptic to shut up for about an hour and a half and explore the idea of "What if...?", you'll love this movie. The acting is great, the idea is sort of mind-blowing and it does make you think what things actually should matter in your life and how we are just wasting it on things that have no value at all. Well, at least, I felt this way.
I would also like to ponder on one line I read in another review. Somebody was wondering why Lucy cares about passing the knowledge to the humanity, but at the same time didn't care about all those people who possibly died in the car crashes she caused. There was a line in this comment saying that an increase of her brain power and being suddenly devoid of empathy didn't make any sense. Well, it makes perfect sense to me, considering Lucy's line "We don't actually die". In fact, we don't, because we pass all the knowledge written in our genes onto our children, and so on, and so on. It's not the life-memory-kind-of knowledge, but it's the knowledge necessary for becoming more and more adapted to the environment, and therefore, having more chances to survive. (I don't even want to dive into another theory saying that, since we are all energy, and energy doesn't disappear but transforms into something else, we don't die but live further in some other kind of state). And what, from the perspective of evolution, can be more valuable than that? It's not about a single human being, because there are so many of us. So, I guess, a super-mind can be devoid of empathy to a particular man or woman, but it does care about transferring the knowledge valuable for the humankind... Besides, maybe, if you ARE united with the universe, and time, and nature, and gravity, and and and... maybe the life of a single human being doesn't seem that important at all? I don't know, and I guess, we'll never know if that could be true. However, I can imagine that it can explain some of the "irrational" moments in this movie. All in all, great watch.