Shut off your brain, watch it for Johanssen (and groan afterward)

Rating: 2/10 (25 September 2015)

I can appreciate that scientific sense sometimes needs to be sacrificed for the sake of entertainment, but this movie went into the realm of the utterly absurd. The movie could easily have been made without that awful blunder, and to compound matters, the directors decided to make that flawed premise the very centre of their film's plot.
In order to illustrate my point without giving away the movie's plot, consider this analogous film story: The sun is dying, which is creating havoc on earth, threatening our existence and so on. Could make for an interesting film. Unfortunately the producers decide the sun is dying because it is made up of coal, which is now running out. You would (hopefully) cringe every time that fact is mentioned in the film.. and that is what will happen to you when you watch Lucy. Enjoy Cringe Enjoy Enjoy Cringe Cringe Cringe.
As for the film itself, consider the John Travolta film, the Phenomenon. Lucy could easily have borrowed the concept of brain hyperactivity without going off the rails as it did.
As a saving grace, Scarlet Johanssen looks as good as she ever has, and she single handedly carries the whole movie.
In short, watch the movie ONLY if you are a fan of Scarlet Johanssen, the woman I would gladly have given up my life to be a slave of, were it not for the fact that she found it acceptable to undertake a movie with such a rubbish script.