KennethAren

What a disappointing ordeal this was. From a genuinely promising premise (albeit not very subtle with its use of tropes, but these can be justified with the right direction), the movie quickly takes on an awful narrative angle, chosing to focus on an unbelievable relationship involving the main protagonist, who is easily one of the worst offenders in lazy, cliché character development: I won't spoil this truism-fest for you, but she basicaly embodies most of the overdone characters traits of this decade's potboilers, with hints of male-gaze sprinkled on top. Throughout the 2 hour long movie, I held on to the hope that the story would at least finally veer towards an engaging intrigue, as the potential was definitely there... but around the 1 hour mark it became clear that the direction was committed in sticking to this uninspired exploration of its obnoxious main character, each event becoming more and more predictable as the movie progressed to its inevitably underwhelming conclusion. Mashable's "Out-Finchers Fincher" review is objectively an insult, no matter how much one may dislike Fincher's work, and I probably shouldn't even address the Lynch comparisons.

Utterly disappointing movie: production value was clearly high, but the script is just terribly written. Scenario is in the same cheezy, over-the-top (in a bad way) veins as the worst Luc Besson movies (not surprising at all to see Lucy among the director's past works) or David Cage videogames.