
Lucy
2014, Action/Mystery and thriller, 1h 28m
239 Reviews 100,000+ RatingsWhat to know
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Enthusiastic and silly, Lucy powers through the movie's logic gaps with cheesy thrills plus Scarlett Johansson's charm -- and mostly succeeds at it. Read critic reviews
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Lucy
Professor Samuel Norman
Mr. Jang
Capt. Pierre Del Rio
The Limey
Richard
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Critic Reviews for Lucy
All Critics (239) | Top Critics (62) | Fresh (159) | Rotten (80)
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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.
September 26, 2016 | Full Review… -
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.
September 22, 2016 | Full Review… -
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 18, 2016 | Full Review… -
[A] supremely silly and pleasurable action movie.
August 29, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 -
It would be overstating it to suggest that Besson is enjoying a major creative renaissance but Lucy is the best film he has made in a very long time.
August 22, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Lucy is a stupendously effective exercise in high-end misdirection.
August 22, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Lucy
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Oct 23, 2016Starting out quite interestingly, carried by its leading lady and an unusual premise, the film loses some pace in the middle part and gets totally lost in the showdown. Sure, it was sci-fi from the beginning, but in the end it's just too much and forgets to entertain in the midst of all its semi-philosophical mambo jumbo. A wasted opportunity considering the talent involved, but at least the action scenes and editing tricks work.Jens S Super Reviewer
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Sep 19, 2016Lucy is a combination of science fiction - i.e. what happens if we can use all our brain's capacity, and hot chick action hero. While I may not remember the details of the movie in a few years time, it was fun to watch for 90 minutesRed L Super Reviewer
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Jul 10, 2016Without realizing I was watching a Luc Besson film, I thought to myself "This looks just like a Luc Besson film!" With visual and thematic echoes of 'La Femme Nikita', 'Lucy' delivers a shot of cinematic adrenaline with Scarlett Johansson magnetic in the title role. Interesting premise of unlocking the brain's potential requires heavy suspension of disbelief, and frankly displays an absurd egomania regarding the human mind during the final act.Doctor S Super Reviewer
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May 18, 2016A hard film to review as the idea and performances were good but the longer the film goes on the more silly it gets and the harder it is to take in, It's pretty short so it's not too much of a drag when things start to get weird, No one can really argue with if this film is incorrect as we will never know what accessing 100% of our brain would be like but it's fun to think and that's what the film tries to do but apart from some ok action there's not allot of fun to be had just a giant mind trip of getting our head around what's going on.Jamie C Super Reviewer
Lucy Quotes
Professor Norman: | Can we therefore conclude that humans are concerned more with having ... than being? |
Caroline: | Since when did you learn to write chinese? |
Professor Norman: | Since a hour ago, |
Professor Norman: | Imagine if we could access to 100%. |
Professor Norman: | 100 billion neurons per human, of which only 50 percent are activated. There are more connections in the human body than there are stars in the galaxy. We possess a gigantic network of information to which we have almost no access. |
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