Lucy

[Venkman]

I think it's interesting some of you channel Transcendence. I didn't get that vibe at all. I got more of a mix between Phenomenon and The Matrix.

Transcendence really feels more like Skynet in that short period between activation and the anthropromorphic robots showing up.

[SurfD]

So, yeah.  Lucy.

Avoid avoid avoid avoid avoid.

Holy helll that was bad.  Story seemed to have almost no real direction, kind of just wobbling all over the place.  Direction was bad.  Very bad.  Like, the film starts off with these artsy cuts to reinforcive imagery spliced into the narritive, and then the director just completely drops that gimmic and never touches it again for the rest of the film.  There is a very small bit where you think the film is trying to channel Limitless with a bit more of a leaning to soft sci-fi abilities other then just "I am really fucking smart" (like telekenesis / telepathy etc), but then it just takes a nosedive off into super hardcore meta-physic stuff.  The science of it (what little there is) will go completely over almost everybody's heads, and the Sci-Fi elements just never seem relateable (The Matrix was easy to relate to, this movie is just a giant mass of jumbled confusion).

Sooo many problems with this thing I really dont know where to begin.  Part of it, at least for me as a fan of Sci-Fi and this kind of shit, is that the last half of the movie would never have happened the way it did if she had powers even remotely close to what she was displaying near the middle.

They had a nice premice, and the opening act started somewhat ok (other then one really stupid and out of place scene), but by the middle of the movie, you could tell they had no real idea where this thing was going, and the end was just a colossal clusterfuck that is guaranteed to leave a bad taste in the mouth of 90% of the joe public type people who are going to go to watch the movie expecting some kind of Limitless / Matrix hybrid.

If you have the chance to see this thing for free, do something more productive with your time, like watch grass grow....

Edit:  For those makeing the Transcendence comparison, this movie is nowhere near that deep.  Like, not even a scratch in the dirt with a spoon deep in comparison.

Warning: Major Spoiler Alert!!

[Merusk]

That explains the Reddit headline about this being the dumbest movie about brain use ever.  Glad I spent this week's movie money going to Monty Python instead.

[Tale]

I went to see this and I kind of enjoyed it. It's a new Luc Besson movie, so it has Nikita-style quirky violence and a Fifth Element-style dumb story, but I like his better stuff (The Big Blue, Nikita, Jeanne d'Arc, etc) so even though it's bad, I enjoyed Besson filming Scarlett Johansson. Plus there's a cameo from an actor from the amazing Danish series Borgen at the start.

I can sum up the dumbness faster though:

[MrHat]

I can sum up the dumbness faster though:

Dead on.  That being said, I really did enjoy it.  Wish there was a bit more of it at like 80 mins, but its fun.

[Bunk]

Yea, just watched this. Pretty much agree with the reviews above - the story is just plain dumb. Nothing makes sense, it doesn't even stay consistent within itself in what powers she has. That being said, and note I am a major Besson fanboi so feel free to take with a grain of salt - I enjoyed it.

Some cool graphics and effects, a cool villain from Old Boy, a quality over the top Besson car chase scene (for no logical reason at all), and some creative use of footage of animals fucking. Plus Scarlet Johannson.

And yes, there's definitely some stuff that makes one think of Akira.   

[satael]

It was bad but the beginning until the scene with Morgan Freeman was the good kind (Nikita, Leon etc.) of Besson.