Lucy is a movie that speaks volume of a super-being borne by scientific accident as she finally evolves into a warrior beyond human logic.
9 November 1988, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
22 January 1962, Seoul, South Korea
12 April 1973, Cairo, Egypt
25 January 1978, Taipei, Taiwan
22 November 1984, New York City, New York, USA
September 26, 2016
It's a film that takes great delight in her essentially co-opting a long series of tropes and storylines typically reserved for men in stories of this type, which is an old trope in the feminist action movie wheelhouse.July 31, 2014
No one has ever accused French action director Luc Besson of thinking too hard, and this frantic exercise in pseudoscience and goofball metaphysics is best enjoyed by following his lead.July 25, 2014
Part philosophical/scientific treatise, part action movie, a film that goes from mayhem to boredom in a heartbeat.September 22, 2016
let it grab you by the noodle and zap you into its whacked-out vision of human existence. You'll feel much better for it, I promise.July 25, 2014
Besson has made very, very bad films in the past, but this is the first time he has presented one so idiotic that the only way to properly convey its flaws is to enumerate them.June 18, 2016
Say what you will about 'Lucy,' which is an absurdly silly and sometimes aggressively stupid movie, but it's at least interested in showing us something new.June 14, 2016
Prof. Norman (Freeman) says we use 10 percent of our brains. Dolphins, at 20 percent, evolved bio-sonar so sophisticated science can't match it. Watch Lucy evolve 100 percent.July 27, 2016
Ms. Scarlett is mad appealing, capable and fierce. Lucy is no more illogical than any superhero movie you've ever seen, and an hour shorter.September 13, 2016
Throughout it all, Johansson is a cool and calm presence.April 15, 2016
It's an antagonistically unintelligent piece, one that clearly views itself as equal parts entertaining and profound. It's neither.August 19, 2014
Lucy is not about to win any prizes from Mensa ... but this isn't quite like any other blockbuster you'll see this year.July 25, 2014
Scarlett Johansson carries the film effortlessly, bridging Besson's narrative and logical ellipses by fully embracing his crowd-pleasing intentions and convincingly depicting Lucy's psychological transformation.