Lucy

The beginning without powers was very entertaining and also suspenseful, the part after gaining them was less so, but still good, but the closer it got to the end, the more I stopped caring about Lucy. At least the film went by quickly, I wasn't too bored and I didn't need even 5% of my brain capacity to watch it. (16/09/2015)

Scarlett is hot but has absolutely nothing to work with, the story has potential but is mired in a horribly shoddy earnestness, and Besson does present some good visual ideas, but for today's mainstream this nutcase is simply unusable and uninteresting. To limit a world in which almost everything is allowed to a few anti-gravity shenanigans and the transformation of matter like something out of B-grade sci-fi from the 80s takes a great deal of filmmaker's pathology. (28/02/2017)

When you expect the female version of Taken and you get something between The Matrix, The Tree of Life, and Cloud Atlas, something is not right. The people behind this film let their imagination roam freely, the car scenes in Paris are VERY impressive, but that's where both the action and the overall script ends. The boldness is appreciated, and Scarlett Johansson tries her best, otherwise, it's a mess. (12/08/2014)

Blatant guilty pleasure! I think that Besson saw Space Odyssey and wanted to shoot something similar, but in his own way and on an earthly scale. The result is a total mishmash from hands of an over-keen geek mistaking this thing for that, who cares about reality... But the entertainment factor is on maximum and Morgan Freeman’s gibberish about the capacity of the brain blends together with neat action scenes where anything is possible (The Matrix gone crazy) and planets that explode. They’ve even got dinosaurs! Awful claptrap that I wouldn’t hesitate putting on again sometime. Scarlett looks great of course and manages the acting fairly well. New Age Fifth Element. (02/01/2015)

FINALLY! Finally, Luc Besson made me happy and once again, according to his feminist philosophy, he prepared a film with a female protagonist whose perfection matches the others that Luc managed to include in his films during that time. The only problem Lucy has is the fact that she has supernatural abilities, so it’s hard to compare her with Joan of Arc, Nikita or Mathilda. She has a bit of all of these characters but she remains unique. So I can’t help but feel satisfied about the kind of movies Besson keeps making to this day. I find it funny how a lot of people on this site dislikes his leaps from action scenes to explanatory or completely unrelated ones. I, on the other hand, enjoyed this very much. Besson has always been crazy in a good way. (19/12/2014)