Lucy

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Lucy

R

2014

1h 29m

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.

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

Stream on Demand

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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highA F.

@iwatchmovieshigh 10h

Director did an absolute great job of ruining the end 👏👏, like that’s it ???? so much potential smh

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Alex P

@RT25874145 1d

i like scarjo but hella mid :(

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R. F. F

@RT36265540 1d

One of my favorite girl baddie films. Ascendant. Femme apotheosis.

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Ucan A

@RT00387758 4d

Bad! The God complex in movies is a cop out. Much like Superman without kryptonite. No substance just a god walking around solving everything, knowing everything and destroying anything and everything at will. Because of....blue drugs. No point for a plot or storyline because anything in the way can be waved away because of ...blue drugs. Dumbest movie I've ever seen Oh dont forget the philosophical metaphors from a comic book thrown in. Humans are this Humans are that Waste of time

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 26

The worldwide gross is $469,058,574.00.

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Amanda P.

@RT11920229 Mar 23

Wow! That was a trip! I felt high after the movie, and I don’t do drugs. The cinematography was nothing like anything I’ve ever seen. The visual effects were out of this world! I have never seen anything so intense and original. It was as intense and original as a Quentin Tarantino film. This was probably the director’s best ever. He knew exactly what he wanted to create and created it he did. Her acting was amazing, and I’m not normally into Scarlet. The movie had a strong female lead and did not require romance of any kind, which is so hard to find (even the movie that implies no romance in the trailer still has it). This is as great of a fulfilling acting role as Matlock for Kathy Bates. Like Parasite, it changed genre halfway through, which is also a rare find. I don’t think I’ll ever see anything quite like it ever again. I honestly do not understand all the hate this movie gets. I understand that the premise is not scientific. Uh…duh! If you want scientific, watch a documentary.

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Luc Besson

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Scarlett Johansson

Lucy

Morgan Freeman

Professor Samuel Norman

Choi Min-sik

Mr. Jang

Amr Waked

Capt. Pierre Del Rio

Julian Rhind-Tutt

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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
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 29m

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