I felt my own IQ dropping almost as rapidly as Lucy's was rising. By the ending of the movie I was using fully 0% of my "cerebral capacity" and needed to be carried out of the theater on a soiled blanket by several ushers.
I didn't think this movie was bad. It was very entertaining, with impressive visual effects. Of course, the storyline could be better, but I think it was surprising and I didn't really expect the ending. It's a movie that makes you wonder what will happen next, with a very good actress on the lead that knows exactly what she is doing. You will have fun watching it. Good summer entertainment.
Easily the most ridiculous fun of the summer. It's as if Luc Besson saw The Tree of Life and said, "I *must* remake this as a superhero film." The most energy on display from the director in at least two decades. If only more studio movies were like this we'd be in a much better place. Sigh.
Much better than I anticipated. Highly entertaining, and relatively short. It's under 90 mins and it just flew by. I wouldn't have minded at all if it was a bit longer, because the movie sets up interesting ideas. Completely unscientific of course, but thought provoking nonetheless. Some of the visuals on display here are gorgeous. I've seen people compare them to the hyperspace sequence in 2001, but I'd liken them more to the macro photography scenes in The Fountain except infused with a huge dose of kinetic energy, particularly when the drugs first take effect.
You know how studio execs keep saying female-led superhero movies wouldn't work? Luc Besson's Lucy is a kind of answer to that, and most of the criticism I've seen about this movie is that the science/premise is preposterous. These reviews just don't get this IS a superhero movie. It's Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, then as Jean Gray, then as Dr. Manhattan. So of course, it's insane. It needs to be. Besson's particular brand of nonsense works for me because it's the closest the Western world is producing to Hong Kong cinema, which I love. But this IS more about ideas than characters. Evolution, human potential, humanity's divinity, our responsibility to ourselves, the big picture vs. the small... all very interesting, but because Lucy is always in a state of becoming, there's no stable character there to hold onto. Scarjo does a good job with it though, playing someone who tries to hold on to her humanity even as it slips away. Effects and action aside, it's really part of that strand of SF that gave us films like X the Man with the X-Ray Eyes or Altered States.
I was expecting much more from this film, the ending was a bit nothing.
It could have been so much more as it had unlimited potential but fell a bit short.
**SPOILER**
Love the beginning when they used a nature documentary to show how Lucy was prey being stalked. Probably the best bit of the movie!
I couldn't even finish this movie. I had to stop after she telekinetically makes the bullets drop out of the bottom of a pistol. Nothing in this movie is grounded in any sort of logic. There is no room for suspension of disbelief in this as they try to explain it with garbage nonsense science.
I can get behind your typical superhero origin story. Radioactive spiders and strange vats of chemicals are fun superhero elements, but Stan Lee doesn't try to pass that stuff off as being based on real scientific research.
Yeah, it's science fiction, but the science is so embarrassingly misguided it's not even fun.
I went in prepared for the whole "10% of the brain" nonsense, hoping that it would be mitigated by the director's sci-fi and action chops (I really enjoyed Lockout). But it's one thing to make up stuff, and it's another to relentlessly hit you in the face with anti-science bullcrap. Maybe someone can make a edit removing Morgan Freeman's lecture scenes that were so wrong it physically hurt.
I dun went to watch this here action movie and was shocked, simply shocked, that this here action movie wasn't intellectually stimulating like those there trailers for it made it out to be.
I gunna go watch that new Michael Bay movie now cuz he know how to make them smart films.
I'd heard many people say the movie was horrible, but I found it to be enjoyable. As for comments about it being unbelievable, it's a science fiction movie. It's perfectly OK for a science fiction movie to not be science accurate, hence the word fiction. Movies in general are meant to be entertainment, and that is exactly what this movie is meant to be.
Add your comment
Comments 1 - 15 of 44
greenhorg
I felt my own IQ dropping almost as rapidly as Lucy's was rising. By the ending of the movie I was using fully 0% of my "cerebral capacity" and needed to be carried out of the theater on a soiled blanket by several ushers.mariannepaqn
I didn't think this movie was bad. It was very entertaining, with impressive visual effects. Of course, the storyline could be better, but I think it was surprising and I didn't really expect the ending. It's a movie that makes you wonder what will happen next, with a very good actress on the lead that knows exactly what she is doing. You will have fun watching it. Good summer entertainment.thefilmstage
Easily the most ridiculous fun of the summer. It's as if Luc Besson saw The Tree of Life and said, "I *must* remake this as a superhero film." The most energy on display from the director in at least two decades. If only more studio movies were like this we'd be in a much better place. Sigh.ChrisReynolds
Despite the claims of this film, people generally use 100% of their brains, although Luc Besson was only using 10% of his brain when he made this.Kenneth McMahon
Much better than I anticipated. Highly entertaining, and relatively short. It's under 90 mins and it just flew by. I wouldn't have minded at all if it was a bit longer, because the movie sets up interesting ideas. Completely unscientific of course, but thought provoking nonetheless. Some of the visuals on display here are gorgeous. I've seen people compare them to the hyperspace sequence in 2001, but I'd liken them more to the macro photography scenes in The Fountain except infused with a huge dose of kinetic energy, particularly when the drugs first take effect.bathkuyp
Say what? You don't speak English? <BANG>demagogo
This Is What Stoners Actually Believe. What You Will See Next Will Shock You.Siskoid
You know how studio execs keep saying female-led superhero movies wouldn't work? Luc Besson's Lucy is a kind of answer to that, and most of the criticism I've seen about this movie is that the science/premise is preposterous. These reviews just don't get this IS a superhero movie. It's Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, then as Jean Gray, then as Dr. Manhattan. So of course, it's insane. It needs to be. Besson's particular brand of nonsense works for me because it's the closest the Western world is producing to Hong Kong cinema, which I love. But this IS more about ideas than characters. Evolution, human potential, humanity's divinity, our responsibility to ourselves, the big picture vs. the small... all very interesting, but because Lucy is always in a state of becoming, there's no stable character there to hold onto. Scarjo does a good job with it though, playing someone who tries to hold on to her humanity even as it slips away. Effects and action aside, it's really part of that strand of SF that gave us films like X the Man with the X-Ray Eyes or Altered States.Earring72
Overblown and pretentious action sci fi movie. Starts out ok with an intruiging idea but than goes full mumbo jumbo. Too bad.....dippygirl78
I was expecting much more from this film, the ending was a bit nothing.It could have been so much more as it had unlimited potential but fell a bit short.
**SPOILER**
Love the beginning when they used a nature documentary to show how Lucy was prey being stalked. Probably the best bit of the movie!
armyofshadows
Movies that think they have all the answers to life's questions piss me off. This film thinks it's much smarter than it actually is.RockHopper92
I couldn't even finish this movie. I had to stop after she telekinetically makes the bullets drop out of the bottom of a pistol. Nothing in this movie is grounded in any sort of logic. There is no room for suspension of disbelief in this as they try to explain it with garbage nonsense science.I can get behind your typical superhero origin story. Radioactive spiders and strange vats of chemicals are fun superhero elements, but Stan Lee doesn't try to pass that stuff off as being based on real scientific research.
Yeah, it's science fiction, but the science is so embarrassingly misguided it's not even fun.
Marasmusine
I went in prepared for the whole "10% of the brain" nonsense, hoping that it would be mitigated by the director's sci-fi and action chops (I really enjoyed Lockout). But it's one thing to make up stuff, and it's another to relentlessly hit you in the face with anti-science bullcrap. Maybe someone can make a edit removing Morgan Freeman's lecture scenes that were so wrong it physically hurt.Public Enemy
I dun went to watch this here action movie and was shocked, simply shocked, that this here action movie wasn't intellectually stimulating like those there trailers for it made it out to be.I gunna go watch that new Michael Bay movie now cuz he know how to make them smart films.
jgazmom
I'd heard many people say the movie was horrible, but I found it to be enjoyable. As for comments about it being unbelievable, it's a science fiction movie. It's perfectly OK for a science fiction movie to not be science accurate, hence the word fiction. Movies in general are meant to be entertainment, and that is exactly what this movie is meant to be.Showing items 1 – 15 of 44