It just gets worse the more I think about it

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2017)

Now, I love movies and I have seen plenty worse than Lucy but for some reason this movie just rubbed me the wrong way and I found myself getting genuinely mad as I watched. This movie stars Scarlet Johanson as Lucy who, early on in the movie is kidnapped and used as a drug mule for this drug that enhances people to use 100% of her brains capacity and, after it gets into her bloodstream, it allows her to do all kinds of supernatural things. Plenty of people have a problem with this premise and I don't really. The film Limitless deals with a similar subject and (although Limitless handled it better and more realistically) I could suspend my disbelief for this premise. And after this moment the movie begins to fall apart. First off I was baffled by some of the director's choices in this movie. A situation would occur and it would suddenly cut to a 'symbolic' show of a similar situation happening in nature like a mouse walking towards a trap or cheetahs stalking prey. And it just seemed so... Pretentious. I get what's he's saying but there was not a hint of subtly in this symbolism. And the whole script just seems so convinced it's being new and groundbreaking it forgets to be any of those things. Stuff just happens, it'll display some impressive visual effect with no explanation of what, how or why and you can tell we're supposed to be amazed saying "what does it all mean?". I'll tell you what it means: nothing! There are plenty of other annoyances in the movie, Morgan Freeman's inclusion is pointless, the ending just seems preachy and uneventful. It seems like we're watching everything unfold with no stakes or consequence, and that brings me to my main complaint. Lucy is boring and empty because there are no stakes in anything going on. As soon as she gets these powers there is no conflict or competition. People chase her with guns and try to fight but none of it matters, she can just knock out a whole room without any resistance. We are never told her limitations because she has no limitations, she has no threat. Resulting in her character being boring, undeveloped and leaves all the side characters on the side line because there's nothing they can do in this situation. She's so powerful she needs no help and has no competition resulting in the side characters useless and all of the action scenes are boring and unsuspensful. Lets also not forget how Lucy is a terrible person once she takes the drugs, before she was quirky, Scarlet Johanson played her well but as soon as she becomes a god she is just dangerous. She shoots an innocent cab driver in the leg because he doesn't speak English, drives recklessly and even kills a man while he's being operated on because he apparently 'couldn't be saved anyway'. Nice protagonist writing there. And the ending... Oh my god. The ending. I won't spoil anything, mainly because there's nothing to spoil. After all of the efforts and 'conflict' in this movie amounts to nothing and the movie ends as if it's taught us something so deep but all I learned I wasted two hours of my life watching NOTHING If I were you, I'd skip this one but if the premise interested you I recommend Limitless starring Bradley Cooper. It's much better than whatever this tried to be