Critic Reviews

Lucy feels like the work of a filmmaker who has recovered his mojo.

It's gleefully bold, visually adventurous, often funny, strikingly concise — the whole heart-pounding tale is over in 90 minutes — and 100% entertaining.

The summer’s best, coolest, juiciest, smartest action movie.

It's basically the perfect summer movie, because it's designed to be.

It comes across, instead, as a directorial flight of fancy, an imaginatively goofy take on an already goofy idea, exaggerated by Besson’s blunt style and an uncommonly fast pace.

Lucy is insane, makes very little sense, doesn't stand up to scrutiny and is an absolute blast.

It’s the blockbuster of the summer.

This undeniably silly, but raucously entertaining, off-the-wall transhumanist actioner is an absolute riot.

Besson is at his balls-out bonkers best in this genre-scrambling, mind-expanding exhilarator.

The best comic-book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world-solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Terrence Malick’s "The Tree of Life."