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- 75Slant MagazineAbhimanyu DasSlant MagazineAbhimanyu DasVulgar auteurist Luc Besson finally commits wholeheartedly to his decades-long preoccupation with waifish young women discovering their inner Shiva, spinning the concept out to its most delirious possible extremes.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangGiddily recycling everything from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “The Matrix” to yakuza actioners and National Geographic documentaries, it’s a garish, trippy, wildly uneven and finally quite disarming piece of work, graced by a moment-to-moment unpredictability.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreBesson’s script may let her (and Freeman) down in the third act, but the 89 minute long Lucy is so brisk it’ll give you whiplash. Even marginal thrillers benefit from a director and star who have a sense of urgency and are as hellbent as this on not overstaying their welcome.
- 60The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanThe end of the movie goes completely off the rails, but in a way that is charming in its stupidity.
- 58HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyThere are moments of real wonder and even beauty amidst the slam and the bang and the big bada boom, and while Lucy is a mixed bag, it's been mixed by a master, and it is delightfully, happily insane.
- 52Film.comKate ErblandFilm.comKate ErblandEven Besson’s most bold choices – and this is a film that goes weird, and then just keeps getting weirder – don’t seem so revolutionary when packaged in such well-tread trappings and increasingly shoddy writing.
- 50TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeLucy is a confounding experience, but at a brisk 85 or so minutes, it manages not to outstay its welcome. Those not enamored of Besson's particular brand of Euro-schlock grindhouse existentialism, however, may find their brains more stimulated elsewhere.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeLucy plays more like a big dumb superhero flick than sci-fi.