A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Lucy is immensely inconsistent and exceedingly daft and yet it remains a good deal of fun.
Plays out as a mash-up of Besson’s own Taken, blended with Frankenstein and Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life, and for most of its short running time this is sincerely, watchably and gloriously crackers.
Besson's film does nothing to deserve its primary asset: Johansson herself, who starts out interesting, and ends up being merely and boringly superhuman.
What begins as a thrilling pastiche of comic-book formula gets bogged down in its own scientific prattle — not that you ever stop adoring Johansson’s magnificent heroine.
Besson is at his balls-out bonkers best in this genre-scrambling, mind-expanding exhilarator. Find it on the biggest screen available and just say ‘Yes’…
The most fun (and completely insane) action movie of the summer.
General release. Check local listings for show times.