Lucy

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Lucy

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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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Mitchell S

I don't believe in evolution, and this movie proves once again why we can't be God. But it's a fun hypothetical action thriller, and as always, Scarlett Johansen kills it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/12/25

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Ted B

3.0 stars; An intellectual film trip about the meaning of human existence along with a superpower style movie... not a superhero movie. I kind of wish it would have made up its mind which one it wanted to be. It was an okay film. I just wasn't in the mood for a scientific lecture about my existence.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/05/25

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Calvin O

When I first saw the trailer, I thought this would be some kind of superhero movie - maybe not saving the world, but some kind of origin story. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong. Apparently "superpowers" don't always equal superheroes in cinema. That's actually very good. I'm glad that this didn't turn out to be some mindless superhero action movie with ray guns and all that stuff, even if this isn't on the same level with the actually deep, astonishing science fiction movies. Cinematography was astonishing. The effects were good, and most of the scenes were very clear, and it was easy to keep track on what was going on and were. Lucy is slightly interesting as a character, but only because of this mystery around her. We don't know who she is, we know only small things that are kind of useless little facts. But all that interest I had in her vanished after she started to change into this typical godlike character who is in some way superior to others, and just knows everything, knows how to do everything, and then just sits there and explains things we don't know about our word so expressionlessly it's almost painful.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/30/25

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Meshal A

For nerds that love science I totally recommend this movie, I love it!!!!.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/28/25

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John A

Think 'Limitless' but this time less American. Auteur Luc Besson revisits the femme fatale trope with some mind-tingling Matrix-esque gestures, slick editing and action scenes that will either impress or mildly exasperate.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/12/25

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Del R

Personally, I loved the movie. It was a new premise which is always fun to find in a sci-fi movie. Sure. It had lots of cheesy one liners but that's what made it fun. Probably not for people with limited imagination. But when it comes to the brain the sky is truly the limit, but then again, maybe not.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/11/25

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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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