Lucy (2014)

Stars	User	Rating
17	frederic_g54	4 _14%
I may not have access to 100% of my cerebral capacity, but I'm pretty sure Besson is a fucking idiot.
12	mwgerb	21 _8%
Impressively acted by Freeman, ScarJo, and Choi, with shades of Akira and Koyaanisqatsi, plus an absolutely dogshit script that ruins the entire film. This is BAD sci-fi, both in terms of the fiction, and the attempts at science. Zero characterization, atrocious dialog, and incomprehensible plot points abound. The myth that people only use 10% of their brain is bad enough, but the idea that using 100% grants omnipotence is shockingly idiotic for a movie so seemingly focused on intelligence.
11	BillyShears	75 _65%
THEY WERE GOING TO SELL THIS DRUG TO CHILDREN.
7	Kojiless	40 _43%
Lucy may be the first human to use 100 percent of the brain's capacity, but she's not the first human to kick ass in an over-stylized pile of nonsensical wildebeest offal directed by Luc "Look at All the Flashing Lights" Besson. Though, you'd be wasting your time if you went into this seeking anything more than robotic ass-kicking by the queen of all robots playing a human that is essentially a robot (see also: Scarlett Johnsson's Tinder profile).
6	Bunken	60 _52%
Try thinking of this as the prequel to Under the Skin. MMMmmm - Cerebral capacity...
5	vespera23	60 _15%
Coming from someone who would probably watch Scarlett Johansson do her taxes for an hour and a half, this is a painful film. Don't turn your brain off. Take it out, put it in a box, and set it in another room before starting this movie.
5	kevinjoseph	64 _48%
Heavy-handed but fun. The 10% nonsense is pretty distracting (no one's expecting the explanation to be realistic, but you gotta give us something to work with). I think I like it less and less the more I think about it, but it wasn't ever dull and the visual effects were nice. Just don't expect smart sci-fi (from this movie about hyper-intelligence) like Under the Skin and Her. Seriously though, ScarJo's killing 2014 (in a good way).
4	Rolo	8 _3%
Starting with the "We only use 10% of the brain" myth, my hopes for a good film were already low. The movie ended up being a mix of shootings everywhere, high speed chases and poor screenwriting.
3	ludvigsen	70 _61%
Not as batshit incomprehensible as you've been told, at times this still feels like Taken sodomizing 2001: A Space Odyssey. And that simply cant be a bad thing.
3	bakcheia	76 _63%
Lucy didn't take itself seriously, so I didn't take it seriously. In turn, I was prepared for a batshit, senseless sci-fi ride full of fun and I received that and more. In all reality, Lucy really isn't concerned with any sense of believability, but instead takes what has become a rather boring premise of " helpless protagonist is exposed to substance A and gains super abilities to fight back" and flipped it into a thrill ride of pure action, bizarre montages, and violence-laden euphoria.
3	Paxton	67 _50%
No big surprise, Luc Besson makes an entertaining film. The major sequences get a bit more ridiculous the further it goes. The first time she walks into a hallway with armed men it's awesome. The second time it happens, she's developed more god like powers and it's more procedural than suspenseful. But they save the WAY over the top stuff for the conveyer belt scene. I mean, why would they leave a new employee at an assembly line in a chocolate factory? The chocolates were coming too fast!
3	Koalafish	45 _8%
If you are using more than 10% of your brain capacity you might consider this dumb.
3	Wezzo	75 _37%
Lucy lacks brains - somewhat ironically - but as a visceral movie experience it's quite a ride, the combined charm of Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman making a surprisingly good match for Luc Besson's fast-paced sci-fi-action insanity. A fun, compelling watch that flies by.
3	donquixotic	70 _77%
Sexy, stylish, and oh so stupid. Damn good fun though
3	KMcNeil	4 _33%
If you commit to using 0 % of your brain capacity, this is 100 % a-okay. Points added for casting of Min-sik Choi.
3	moraesfelipe	65 _62%
Despite/because of the general lack of seriousness, it works beautifully as an arresting and stupidly confident entertainer. This is Besson's Tree of Life led by his usual cartoonish, Eurotrash prototype of powerful women, but here this obsession becomes a Darwinian trigger for a deep think picture about ourselves -- actually, this will-we-ever-become-one-with-the-earth? question can be found in another recent Scar-Jo vehicle (Under the Skin, of course) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
3	lumen	2 _1%
So much stupidity condensed in just 83 minutes. It's kind of impressive.
2	Tjekhov	50 _40%
The best Besson production in nearly 20 years. Feels a bit like Ghost in a shell - existentialism, blood, rage! Scarlett, though, couldn't be a worse actress.
2	AAAutin	4 _0%
ScarJo is Lucy, Luc Besson is the football, and the rest of us are Charlie Brown...
2	Pursus	49 _11%
Guy Ritchie is to 'Revolver' as Luc Besson is to 'Lucy.' It's like someone wrote "wouldn't it be cool if..." on a chalkboard and had everyone write something on an index card. Then they shuffled them all together and called it a script. Why is there a car chase? Why is she evaporating? Why are they shooting at each other this time? The answer is always "whatever percentage she is on" or just because. I wish filmmakers would stop trying to fake depth with abstract nonsense. Also, Samsung.
2	jetboy	45 _7%
Loses points for attempting soul-searching sci-fi and handing us a turd blossom.
2	Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter)	60 _62%
Assuming you can get past the factual errors within it -- that, in the grand scheme of things, aren't really important, even if they initially look like they are -- it's possible to have a lot of fun with Lucy. It's dumb fun, for a large part of its running time, but there are also moments of genuine intellect, where you get to see Luc Besson's vision of, well, you'll see. Lucy is worth seeing.
2	DrGoatman	69 _56%
Can't say it was a good movie, but it looks nice and if you can appreciate the insanity that unfolds you're bound to like it more. Oh, and the premise is stupid.
2	KramYessev	63 _43%
Don't become too smart, guys. You'll turn into a USB stick.
2	RandallODim	74 _33%
The editing and action are great. The plot leaves something to be desired, such that there is one; the story just sort of progresses rather than being moved forward by characters, a feeling that is only furthered by the fact that the main character, who is the only person with real agency in the film, is painfully flat. This sort of makes sense, since she ascends above human concerns pretty early, but it still drains investment hard, and they can't make up their mind how far gone she is anyway.
2	Vdecraim	70 _42%
More daring in style then anything you see in theaters these days (it's been ages since I last saw Eisenstein's intellectual montage used so literally) and quite entertaining in depicting Scarlett Johannson's journey from a simple student to ... ehm, whatever. Lucy gets its thrills in the most cheesy ways possible, e.g. hard music accompanying boobs and explosions, and it features the highest amount of logic gaps in recent history. But entertaining nonetheless.
2	Alex Watkins	4 _70%
Drugs unlock the pseudoscientific superpowers of an anime superheroine until she's able to manipulate time and space themselves and look on existence with a God's-eye view. A tongue-in-cheek action movie that takes cues from The Tree of Life, Akira, and The Matrix - what's not to love?
2	Suture Self	7 _67%
Unlike a lot of other stupid movies, I was willing to approach this one on its own terms, because I found its deadpan humor charming, and enjoyed how it slowly ramped up its crackpot premise to the point where all you can do is awkwardly smile at the person you're watching this with and shake your head. Luc Besson is a man-child, so his concept of "cool" is a mixed bag, but some of the more loony and hallucinogenic sequences are pretty entertaining.
2	Obdurate	70 _40%
It's a good, kinda dumb time, ultimately, even if it's trying to be smart. Once she gets involved with the drug it becomes pretty intense and nuts, and really visually appealing. The beginning with the animals was a little blunt and unnecessary (we GET it Luc), but that's minor. Even if it doesn't make a lot of sense at times, it's still an interesting look at what would happen if we used all of our brains. Kinda felt like there wasn't much of a conflict, but that's minor too.
2	KasperL	50 _30%
I'm usually anything but a tough customer when it comes to sci-fi. Even I have my limits, though.
2	Barthalen	70 _55%
Yes, the premise is hilariously silly, but it's fun to just sit back and See Where All Of This Is Going. Some neat 'whoa, cool' moments that I wish weren't spoiled by the trailers. The antagonists aren't that intimidating anymore once Lucy is able to 'disable' people instantly, though Min-sik Choi's presence was appreciated. Johansson is really cornering that 'roles about an entity evolving into another entity' market, isn't she?
2	Egregius	73 _23%
A movie constructed around the myth of humans using only 6-15% of their brain, which is my absolute pet-peeve. With atrociously pretentious dialogue to boot. Really atrocious. But if it's secretly an aesop about how doing too much drugs can make you super-humanly one with the universe, and absolutely silly nonsense meant to be enjoyed with 0.1% of your brain capacity left, I'm down for it.
2	Luna6ix	62 _18%
Besson has a knack for action movies, and the action sequences here are good, but what Besson doesn't do well, is the writing. I'm not sure who said yes to this movie, but even the brain dead average white trash American would raise an eyebrow and say "Hey, that's not how that works." to this asinine idea of a movie. She could control stuff with her mind, made a disintegrating supercomputer, then she became god. WTF? That's not how that works. It's like "Limitless" if written by L. Ron Hubbard.
1	VengefulKBM	75 _63%
Maybe I just like Luc Besson a little too much, but I really enjoyed this movie. You have to get it points for originality, and I found the over-the-top symbolism hilarious, as well as the movie's tendency to just randomly shift tone right in the middle of the plot. Definitely a fun one if you're willing to just let it take you along for the ride.
1	tkj	72 _19%
one of the worst movies, but sort of badgood
1	myfavchords	43 _4%
The script is beyond belief. The film starts off well but things keep getting more unrealistic and ridicules. The actors do a good job but the story does not really go any place and the script is bad. This film is a huge disappointment.
1	joel-w-m	3 _5%
Terribly heavy-handed, from its pointless visual metaphors (the pursuing bad guy is the cheetah, Lucy is the antelope, wow, nice one) to Freeman's excruciating presentation (yes let's hear "cerebral capacity" said one more time, thanks) to its bad plot exposition (see Lucy mind-reading and saying what we already see). All of this said, it's got a good action-thriller pace, and the extremes it goes to with its concept in the end are actually pretty compelling (if still presented in a cheesy way).
1	Akaasha	100 _99%
Really loved this movie. It was much deeper than what I expected. It makes you think about the possibilities you posses and does it in an entertaining way. If you you are in anyway into the deeper side of Buddhist philosophy some the theories will be familiar.
1	jackdrek	47 _28%
Basically a Luc Besson showreel. The lack of depth and follow-through left the impression that Besson is speeding through a checklist of ideas that he wanted to commit to screen.
1	Martinelli	100 _0%
Beauty and Brains!
1	Groovy_Souls	50 _29%
With a concept so interesting, something had to be off with this film. I just did not expect so much. The acting, minus Freeman, was subpar at best, and the story was cliched, predictable, and sometimes boring, filled with unrelatable characters. The cinematography was interesting, yet Besson's direction is sloppy and distracting. I think this movie had potential but had some very irredeemable factors.
1	Adam P-D	10 _3%
100% of my arse.
1	Minorsage	60 _34%
Sat down for an action film, got this. It's not an action film. It's not the cerebral film it tries to be. I'm not sure what it is.
1	daisy-fairy	50 _34%
I'm not sure how to rate this movie. The actors were brilliant, I love Scarlett's bitch face :) But apart from sci-fi part of this movie, I just had a feeling through the whole watching time, that this is just a really stupid movie. I can't really express why, but I really didn't like it that much as I thought I should.
1	o_rety	75 _56%
It has all the virtues and trappings of Besson's flamboyant style. Still it can be quite an entertaining ride, but only on one condition - you need to possess this peculiar quality of being able to switch off your brain just at the right moments. All in all I liked what "Limitless" did with a very similar concept a lot better.
1	shauny18	61 _53%
Overall this is a decent film but I felt it was ruined by the trailer spoiling a lot of the big action set pieces.It was good to see a solid performance by a sole Female lead which hasn't happened much in recent blockbusters.The concept of the movie is highly ambitious but they have managed to come up with a script which is easy to follow but loaded with intellectual facts and information.With high octane action moments,decent performances and a passable conclusion this film was pretty fun.
1	jspidah	71 _63%
Decent. Has a great concept and some awesome scenes but fails to tie it all together. I don't think it went far enough.
1	LookJabba...	6 _41%
Lucy doesn't stand out as one of the memorable summer releases of 2014, but it's still enjoyable and worth a watch. Luc Besson blatantly takes the concept of 'Limitless' and turns it into an all out action film. And he approaches Lucy with ambition, ideas and flair. But ambition crosses the line of absurdity and the film becomes increasingly ridiculous. However once again Scarlett Johansson proves she's a worthy leading lady and the set pieces are all impressive, in particular the car chase.
1	Moribunny	20 _9%
Every kind of nonsense and completely unrewarding.
1	Clark Nova	96 _80%
the most diverse audience I've been a part of. Just goes to show that ScarJo brings people together :)
1	TheRealJ-Ro	70 _42%
I struggled mightily with my ranking for this. At first glance I honestly felt that the opening to the movie was mediocre, that ScarJo overacts her abduction and... pretty much everything right up to coming into contact with the drug, some parts I felt were logistically unbelievable, etc. Then I thought to myself "How much of that, if true, really matters to THIS movie?" I wasn't bored, I had fun. It's a genre flick, it's interesting. Maybe I'm letting it off easy, but it's worth checking out.
1	TheDenizen	70 _63%
The trailers made this look like a cool hard sci-fi flick, but in actuality it's more of a stoner movie. Scarlett Johansson gets to access 100% of her brain capacity, but most of what she has to say about it comes across as "Hey man, everything is like, totally connected." Some decent action and Scarlett is lovely as ever, but the highlight was Choi Min-Sik playing the psychotic gangster.
1	djross	40 _26%
Steals the premise of LIMITLESS and adds the conclusion of HER (Johansson withdrawing/expanding into nowhere/everywhere) and TRANSCENDENCE (released 3 months prior), but this one gets far sillier far more quickly. So, while the first few scenes set up a reasonable basis for the story, it turns out that no narrative is really sustainable because the protagonist's magical powers start at 10 and rapidly increase to 11, before settling at a comfortable infinity. Spoiler: time is unity. Now you know.
1	grimsooth	26 _11%
If the point of this movie is to bring a live off science to the masses, it does so with magic, fantasy, and illogic. It's crazy enough to work, but the movie isn't particularly good and, what's worse, could've had more actual science to achieve it's end.
1	angrypierre	55 _24%
Take one writer. Make them half remember a bullshit factoid. Roll up a super mega Moroccan style spliff doobie. Marinade for twenty minutes. Fart out so pseudo-philosophical codshit. Make shiny. Release.
1	PeaceAnarchy	74 _40%
Pure absurdity, but it's so self assured and energetic that it's easy to go along for the ride.
1	AFlickering	2 _19%
finally we have proof that kubrick's monolith was scarlett johansson all along.
1	muutanet	63 _55%
Lucy was a pure Luc Besson production. Incredible catchy beginning, heavy gun shooting, a beautiful lead, a runaway train action and the most fantastic story you can imagine. The end went pretty close to the nonsense philosophy Matrix gave some time ago. More you know, less you feel. Dare to be stupid or what? Anyway. Scarlett always pleases the eye.
1	Ross	50 _44%
The gangster plot line is pointless and should be removed. Then Lucy would be an overly ambitious short film with a high production value that despite being ridiculous would be thought provoking.
1	Wiche	66 _50%
I'm always quite sad when I see a movie which had so much potential, but wasn't that great after all. Lucy tries to be intellectual, full of action, but is one big mess really. Luc Besson, leave some of your nature shots out of it, you absolutely ruined the entire beginning of this film.
1	Evolution	69 _36%
Interesting idea taken to ridiculous extreme. It's fun if you can get past all the jarring animal cuts towards the start and the silliness of the whole thing.
1	DougCollins	70 _10%
really good at the beginning but quickly lost steam. You need more than just a good idea to make a movie.
1	Naypalm	77 _57%
It's a 1 on the Mohs scale but it's a beautiful film, another good SciFi starring Johansson. Could have done away with the Koreans though, other that a start up plot device they served no purpose. Too much time spent on action which could've been spent going into more fine-grained detail as her state progressed. Also Morgan Freeman is fucking shite, get rid of him.
1	meduolis	90 _88%
I will forgive for all the cheesy shooting scenes (needed for the thriller kind, I do understand) because it is a fantastic adaptation of Buddhist philosophy. Really! The smallest details seemed to be so in place and the main aspects are shown in the way so it is easy to understand and get yourself thinking about space, time, universe and the big things your brain are not really able to process. It is really good one.
1	astrakhan	77 _49%
OK entertainment flick with a decently fast pace, plenty of characters and locations, and above average eye candy via Ms Johansson. In fact this is one of the best movies for ogling her. The storytelling is watchable in the first half but ultimately the only conclusion is that when you do loads of drugs and get really intelligent, everything will turn into special effects. A realist rewrite might have more substance or more to say, but that's just not Besson. I love and hate the guy.
1	pcalado	0 _7%
I can tolerate stupid movies, but I can't stand movies that assume I am stupid.
1	Gideon	2 _59%
Lucy is so preposterous it's almost admirable they actually went into production with it. It's too short, no room for character development and basically rushes to the credits. The ride is quite alright, just not very satisfying. Easy acting job for ScarJo, as her character Lucy is devoid of emotion most of the time. Up your game again, Besson, create something brilliant as either Leon or The Fifth Element!
1	d_drudges	10 _7%
Racism, pseudoscience and violence porn wrapped into one neat, magnificently idiotic package. Morgan Freeman giving a lecture juxtaposed with cliched animal footage must be some kind of a record in laziness. If you refuse to learn, you might find yourself harboring ideas that would have gotten you laughed at milleania ago, like thinking that the mind is a vessel to be filled.
1	forehead1	40 _25%
Whilst being an absolute mess seemingly knocked together at the last minute to grab some cash in a quiet summer, Lucy's make-it-up-as-we-go-along bizarreness actually means it's happily watchable for the most part as you honestly haven't a clue what will happen next. But then your reward is a climax where the protagonist turns into a USB memory stick. Has some grandiose ideas lurking around but never comes close to successfully integrating any of them.
1	x-human	79 _59%
Very nearly walk out based on its annoying opening, but once Min-sik Choi shows up the show really hits the road. The biggest flaw is that Lucy evolves so quickly, and learns her abilities so readily, it loses out of the thrill of the chase. While the basic premise is flawed, the central message, that human beings are limitless if we so choose, is well expressed. Its only real problem is trying to be an action movie instead of a grounded science fiction film. But what's good is still good. Rent.
1	woodoo	70 _22%
Worth it just to see the superheroine shun violence for a higher purpose about halfway through. Choi Min Sik doesn't even need lines to be compelling.
1	britneeee	70 _44%
If you have any interest in having an existential crisis or at least a panic attack, this movie is for you. Many similarities to Lawnmower Man, but feels more like an action film than a horror film.
1	dunbar	50 _13%
So dumb, so boring. Entertain us mere 10% mortals next time you jackass Besson.
1	Kevinraayy	61 _3%
She turned into a USB stick in the end. Lol

Average Percentile 31.94% from 4776 Ratings