Lucy is an American woman studying abroad in Taiwan. She likes to party and has just started dating a new boyfriend. Unfortunately her boyfriend only wants to use her naivety to traffic drugs for him. After being kidnapped by his employers and had a package of a new type of drugs sewn into her abdomen, Lucy has reached rock bottom. But that changes when one of her captors kicks her in the stomach causing the drugs to leak into her bloodstream. Lucy's cerebral capacity is increasing and she now has the knowledge to defeat and escape her captors. Lucy is now hardly human it seems and to get answers she tracks down the one man everyone wants to explain things: Morgan Freeman...err Samuel Norman.Even though I was irked that it seemed like a blatant rip off of the far superior movie Limitless, I was more than willing to give Lucy a fair shake. It is Hollywood after all and almost everything is based on someone else's idea. Unfortunately though Lucy is straight up a terrible movie. I will go as far to say the worst movie of the summer. It wasn't just that it was boring, or that the dialogue was sometime eye roll inducing, or that the ideas and situations were downright laughable; it was all of that combined. One positive thing it has was pretty sweet visuals and a good car chase. (even though it wasn't even a car chase, just a car driving fast.) I have to say I can't believe some of the praise this movie got while the FAR superior Transcendence was panned earlier in the year. Everyone has been asking for years where a good action movie was that had a strong woman as the lead. Everyone hoped this was it. It may be action but it certainly is far from good. Look elsewhere feminists, look elsewhere. C-
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