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.

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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

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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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Par H

@Parhwy 1h

Lucy (2014) is a 99-minute-long French-US action/sci-fi film I saw on Netflix in June 2026. Aside from the 10% brain premise of this film, there are two things I genuinely do not like about this film (the rest is fun, interesting, enjoyable). First, when Lucy calls her mom, she should be intelligent enough to know what she’s saying has to weird her mom out, and it does, and the writer gave us the contrivance of "you’re dropping out", however the goal is not to convey info to her mom, it’s to convey info to us, the audience, about how deep she’s going; feels weak. Second, when Lucy gets hyper-smart, her neck gets this robotic quality, her gaze too; she’s not a Terminator, Luc. Rewatch? Probably, this viewing was likely my fifth. Recommend? Yes. 7/10.

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Victoria M

@RT10316219 6d

I turned it off after 15 minutes. It was kind of jarring with the cutscenes of metaphor. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance but I just felt uninspired

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LIOR M

@RT32324560 Jun 13

Great movie. Fun and entertaining. Viewers who gave it bad review shouldn't spoil for others who will miss it because of their review.

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Joshua S

@RT86367513 Jun 6

I absolutely loved this movie. I'm not sure why so many people hate on it but it seems like it has something to do with a female lead via comments. The visuals are beautiful and would look great in 3D.

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Gretchen W.

@RT16280876 Jun 3

Pretty bad unless you turn your brain off. Worth your watch if you want some dumb fun. Lucy has um 0 personality though.

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Lawrence D

@RT35705401 May 29

Really dumb. Formulaic. Good movie for ten year old boys. Full of gratuitous violence, car crashes, science myths (we only use 10% of our brain) and poor writing, directing and acting. Yeah, the trifecta. I'm sure mindless morons like this kind of tripe, but if you have half a brain (and use it) you'll be very disappointed.

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Capt. Pierre Del Rio

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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