100% not achieved

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2014)

I've been dying to see this movie since I saw the trailer as I thought "Finally! A great summer movie" in a summer that has offered very little in the way of great movies, Lucy had the potential to be a great film but they dropped the ball... it wasn't awful but it wasn't very good either.
First the parts I did like, Scarlett Johansson has some pretty sweet revenge scenes which I always like to from a female lead and she's fun to watch during some of her ECUs while she delivers her dialogue, some of the action sequences were well crafted as well and got me excited but they don't crescendo well as the level of intensity goes up then down then medium then down then high then low???? I'm no screenwriter but I'm pretty sure film school 101 tells you to just keep turning the dial up.
Morgan Freeman delivers his dialogue as scripted literally... like he was reading a script to the audience, I love this actor but he doesn't seem like they paid him enough for his role in this film judging by his performance; it's almost painful to watch.
100% in the review title refers to the ultimate level of brain usage Lucy achieves by the end of the movie, so what happens when you use 100% of your brain? Well apparently you develop the ability to convince the studio that produced the film that special effects should ridiculously cheesy and not even in a tongue in cheek sort of way... like the editor actually looked at these scenes and actually thought they looked good.
Bottom line: 3rd rate special effects, Scarlett is fun to watch, good fight scenes, bad guys don't speak English to a fault, plot-holes, worst performance by acting great Morgan (sad face), good action sequences, good visual relays, disappointing ending.