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#1 Post by scootermcc » Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:18 pm

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plenty of action and interesting premise for a story.

7/10

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#2 Post by funthing29 » Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:04 pm

There a lot of things in the script that don't seem logical but are justified by Lucy's enhanced brain power. I guess the audience is meant to shrug and accept everything that happens with the explanation given. That aside, the film is rather entertaining with Johannson very good in the lead role. 7/10.
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#3 Post by raj101 » Sat Aug 30, 2014 3:20 pm

that was a bit of a blast, my ears are ringing.

A chemical cocktail of pop violence in a super-silly inverted kind of Matrix way. Very, very Besson.

I will concede this was actually worth seeing in IMAX, albeit the movie was quite short.
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#4 Post by andrews » Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:44 am

I watched this last week, and quite enjoyed it. It is a rather short film (89 minutes, including credits) but it was not dull at all. An interesting idea.
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#5 Post by newdot » Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:31 pm

Just back from seeing this at a near empty screening.

Tremendous, mindless psycho-babble stuff.

Best looking film I've seen in a while.

8/10 for its ambition.

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#6 Post by jcolombi » Sun Sep 07, 2014 4:33 pm

I have to say I am in the minority but I hated this. The story is poor and the acting is sub-par. I would recommend you watch Limitless much better!

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#7 Post by steve9872 » Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:29 pm

jcolombi wrote:I have to say I am in the minority but I hated this. The story is poor and the acting is sub-par. I would recommend you watch Limitless much better!

3.5/10
I have to agree with this, the action level from Lucy just tailed off in a silly way.
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#8 Post by distortthecode » Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:50 pm

I really enjoyed this but it did have a lot of flaws and I felt it could've done with an extra 15 - 20 minutes so that the storytelling wasn't quite as rushed though, for example
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Like when the French police officer asked why she still needed him after the hospital and her response was "to remind me", yet they have barely any interaction following that, nor any sorts of comments from him that she's going too far or anything to indicate that she did need him other than the fight at the end.
Overall enjoyed it though and visually it was stunning
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#9 Post by RAZORBACK » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:42 pm

I really liked this, as the story wasn't something to be taken too seriously or studied too closely I decided to just switch my brain off & enjoy the ride.

I thought Johansson put in another solid performance (she was particularly good at the pre powers stage of the movie) & I thought the conclusion was visually very special indeed.

Overall it's a very decent sci-fi flavoured thriller & one that did enough to get an 8/10 from me...
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Re: Lucy

#10 Post by RickyRaj » Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:26 am

distortthecode wrote:I really enjoyed this but it did have a lot of flaws and I felt it could've done with an extra 15 - 20 minutes so that the storytelling wasn't quite as rushed though, for example
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Like when the French police officer asked why she still needed him after the hospital and her response was "to remind me", yet they have barely any interaction following that, nor any sorts of comments from him that she's going too far or anything to indicate that she did need him other than the fight at the end.
Overall enjoyed it though and visually it was stunning
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Disappointing, typical Besson styled film. Did seem like a short film -I guess I'm use to 2hour ish films these days. A promising story turned a bit strange towards the end so it's a 5/10.
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