Lucy

Luc Besson

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2.83

Lucy

Synopsis

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

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Cast

Scarlett JohanssonLucy Miller
Morgan FreemanProfessor Samuel Norman
Choi Min-sikMr. Jang
Amr WakedPierre Del Rio
Julian Rhind-TuttThe Limey
Pilou AsbækRichard
Lio TiptonCaroline
Shin Yoo-ramJang's Lieutenant
Seo Chong-juJang's Lieutenant
Nicolas PhongphethJii

Recommendations

83
The Playlist
It's basically the perfect summer movie, because it's designed to be.
75
Slant Magazine
Vulgar auteurist Luc Besson finally commits wholeheartedly to his decades-long preoccupation with waifish young women discovering their inner Shiva, spinning the concept out to its most delirious possible extremes.
70
Variety
Giddily recycling everything from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “The Matrix” to yakuza actioners and National Geographic documentaries, it’s a garish, trippy, wildly uneven and finally quite disarming piece of work, graced by a moment-to-moment unpredictability.
67
IndieWire
Lucy doesn't hold together, but with its flashy innovation, Besson's trying to freshen the formula. It's the kind of freewheeling mess of a movie you wish studios would try out more often.
63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Besson’s script may let her (and Freeman) down in the third act, but the 89 minute long Lucy is so brisk it’ll give you whiplash. Even marginal thrillers benefit from a director and star who have a sense of urgency and are as hellbent as this on not overstaying their welcome.
60
The Guardian
The end of the movie goes completely off the rails, but in a way that is charming in its stupidity.
58
Hitfix
There are moments of real wonder and even beauty amidst the slam and the bang and the big bada boom, and while Lucy is a mixed bag, it's been mixed by a master, and it is delightfully, happily insane.
52
Film.com
Even Besson’s most bold choices – and this is a film that goes weird, and then just keeps getting weirder – don’t seem so revolutionary when packaged in such well-tread trappings and increasingly shoddy writing.