Lucy

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Lucy

R

Released Jul 25, 2014

1h 28m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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When a boyfriend tricks Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) into delivering a briefcase to a supposed business contact, the once-carefree student is abducted by thugs who intend to turn her into a drug mule. She is surgically implanted with a package containing a powerful chemical, but it leaks into her system, giving her superhuman abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy. With her former captors in pursuit, Lucy seeks out a neurologist (Morgan Freeman), who she hopes will be able to help her.

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Critics Consensus

Enthusiastic and silly, Lucy powers through the movie's logic gaps with cheesy thrills plus Scarlett Johansson's charm -- and mostly succeeds at it.

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Emily St. James

Vox

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.

Sep 26, 2016

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David Sims

The Atlantic

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.

Sep 22, 2016

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

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.

Jun 18, 2016

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

It's basically a fantasy wrapped in the guise of science and used as an excuse for an action thriller, but what a thriller. This is a kinetic explosion at its best with Johansson striding through it with a sense of drive and assuredness...

May 6, 2023

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

Lucy‘s two strands co-exist, intercut but separate; the pleasure is in ricocheting between two incompatible elements for an entire movie, making those blunt opening juxtapositions surprisingly indicative of what’s to come.

Jan 24, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Besson packs a lot of ideas into the brief 89-minute runtime, but he should've spent another 20 minutes on character development.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 5, 2022

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Jesus B

In my opinion, it was an interesting, if poorly executed, film. While the main character was good, I feel that the first part of the film was quite bad, and that's not even counting the exorcist scenes they included, a terrible joke that was poorly told.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/17/25

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Hector Adrian Q

I HAVE NO IDEA THIS MOVIE WAS SO COOL 😂😎❤️❤️👏👏👏👍👍👍💯🍿🍿🍿👌👌👌🥰🥰🥰 WE NEED A SECOND PART.. WHEN?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/16/25

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Kas A

A twisted thriller that gives us a promising performance from Scarlet Johannsson... it's worth a watch.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/03/25

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Zachary Jacob S

As much as it isn't perfect, I kinda dig this film! Plenty to love. It can be thematically great at times!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/29/25

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Bruce S

A lot of movies have plot holes and "Lucy" is no exception. It was going OK until the end. It was as if the writers couldn't think up an ending and just went with several minutes of computer graphics, similar to "2001 -- A Space Odyssey."

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/28/25

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Joshua m

This is certainly entertaining and it gets points for creativity and novelty. There is enough action to satisfy any sci-fi fan. There are some interesting themes here, although they only get superficial treatment, which is too bad. It crosses the border though from sci-fi to fantasy. Rather than using her knowledge to create technology to get superpowers, Lucy just gets them de facto. Narratively speaking, this doesn't work well.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/23/25

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Synopsis

When a boyfriend tricks Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) into delivering a briefcase to a supposed business contact, the once-carefree student is abducted by thugs who intend to turn her into a drug mule. She is surgically implanted with a package containing a powerful chemical, but it leaks into her system, giving her superhuman abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy. With her former captors in pursuit, Lucy seeks out a neurologist (Morgan Freeman), who she hopes will be able to help her.

Director: Luc Besson
Producer: Virginie Silla
Screenwriter: Luc Besson
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Cine+, Canal+, TF1 Films Productions, EuropaCorp
Rating: R (Sexuality|Disturbing Images|Strong Violence)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 25, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 17, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $126.5M
Runtime: 1h 28m

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