Lucy

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Lucy

R

2014

1h 29m

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

09/26/2016

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.

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David Sims

The Atlantic

09/22/2016

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.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

06/18/2016

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.

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Sean Axmaker

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05/06/2023

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...

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

01/24/2023

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.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

08/05/2022

2.5/4

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

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@RT29792216 2d

The special effects guys got a pay day and license to do as they please. The longer it went on the worse the storyline got. I anticipated something half decent with Morgan Freeman in the cast, but this one isn't one of his best decisions. Don't waste your time.

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Eric B

@EricB10 4d

Headed in a great direction, until it didn't. I mean, a brain working at 100% capacity perhaps COULD do all the things the film depicts, but why would it? I mean - (spoiler alert) - if it could fully control it's host body at 40%, why would it need drugs? Maybe it still would, but at 60% or 70%? And that is the problem with this film: it posits some great stuff, then retreats into nonsense created by a human using only 10% of it's brain capacity. Ken Russell's "Altered States" was far better because Writer Paddy Chayefsky and Director Ken Russell kept the story within the realm of believability, despite the unbelievable journey "Eddie Jessup" took. "Altered States" was a great film. "Lucy" could have been. Besson's "The Fifth Element", a fantastic film depicting a fantastic future reality, was believable in no small part because things made sense, moment-to-moment. In "Lucy", one moment you're on board, the next, you're scratching your head.

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highA F.

@iwatchmovieshigh Apr 19

Director did an absolute great job of ruining the end 👏👏, like that’s it ???? so much potential smh

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Alex P

@RT25874145 Apr 18

i like scarjo but hella mid :(

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R. F. F

@RT36265540 Apr 18

One of my favorite girl baddie films. Ascendant. Femme apotheosis.

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Ucan A

@RT00387758 Apr 15

Bad! The God complex in movies is a cop out. Much like Superman without kryptonite. No substance just a god walking around solving everything, knowing everything and destroying anything and everything at will. Because of....blue drugs. No point for a plot or storyline because anything in the way can be waved away because of ...blue drugs. Dumbest movie I've ever seen Oh dont forget the philosophical metaphors from a comic book thrown in. Humans are this Humans are that Waste of time

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Luc Besson

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Professor Samuel Norman

Choi Min-sik

Mr. Jang

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Capt. Pierre Del Rio

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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
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 29m