The hype is NOT real!

Rating: 2/10 (31 July 2014)

Upon seeing the trailer of this movie I was expecting a more kick ass version of Limitless, but what I got was a boring, high budget special effects movie with little to no plot. Personally, I found it difficult to sit through because the action scenes were tedious and there was nothing special about Lucy that the audience could sympathize with. As Lucy unlocked more of her brain capacity, she became more and more robotic and heartless. In one scene she actually killed an innocent patient in a hospital, because he had a fatal brain tumor. Why the hell wouldn't she use her unlimited knowledge for good?! I guess they spent all their money on Scarlett Johansson being in their movie, instead of a good plot and realistic characters. I left the cinema with more questions about the movie than when I came in!
The only redeeming qualities were: 1.at the beginning of the movie, clips of "national geographic"-like footage of wild animals and nature were used to demonstrate evolution 2. Scarlett Johansson y'all! 3. the special effects were amazing towards the end. In all honesty, this movie started with great, unlimited potential. They wasted it on a boring plot, generic bad drug lords and a sexy girl. Why the hell doesn't Hollywood give the audience what they want to see. The hype is NOT real!