Lucy

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Lucy

R

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

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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Lily B

@Lucyispoo 17h

The worst film I have ever watched, I’m actually upset I’ve wasted my time. It doesn’t even deserve 1 star, it deserves -100 stars because it’s poo (Just want to let readers know I’ve specifically made an account just so I can write how poo this is)

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Nathan B

@Neeth 17h

Luc Besson at his finest, not quite as witty as Fifth Element, or as poetic Leon...but this is a belter of a film nonetheless. Scarlett is excellent and Freeman decent too, but it's Besson's playful, inquisitive charm that shines brightest here ❤️

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Hughe J

@Hughe 1d

Lucy was released in theatres in 2014 and stars Scarlett Johansson in the title role with Morgan Freeman co-starring. It was directed by Luc Besson who also directed another film that I thoroughly enjoyed: The Fifth Element. Lucy plays an American student in Asia who is kidnapped and turned into a drug mule when bags of a new synthetic drug are surgically implanted into her abdomen. They eventually rupture and the drugs start a sort of rapid process where her brain begins to evolve and she becomes smarter. Using her newfound intelligence she seeks out other drug mules to complete the evolutionary transformation and naturally comes into conflict with the drug cartel. Johansson was quite good here, as was Freeman (per usual), even if some of the science mumbo jumbo was total nonsense. The action scenes were quite good, the acting was decent, and I enjoyed most of the movie; the finale, her turning into a thumb drive, was really dumb though. Still, overall a fun ride.

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James H

@Pythion Dec 24

The kind of "Sci Fi" that the critics love and audiences hate. Tries to be deep, but just deep in muck. Synopsis in one sentence: Scalett Johansson takes a drug, and becomes god amid Disney Fantasia worthy visual effects. Completely nonsensical. Relying on visual effects to distract you from the fact that there is no rhyme or reason to what is happening other than Lucy becoming god because of a designer drug.

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William S

Dec 22

not sure what all the haters are about. Great fun sci-fi ride.

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Evwon K

Dec 20

A knockoff Limitless. A movie about Drugs written by Writers who were on drugs. Ridiculous, concept quickly becomes outlandish, and decisions that do not match the character's capacity. This isn't SciFi, it is pure Fantasy with magic unchained from any semblance of reality. Some visuals were neat I guess.

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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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