i watched Lucy back in college, years after it originally came out, and i remember going into it already expecting some goofy 'humans use 10% of their brain' sci-fi nonsense. but after finishing it i immediately ended up comparing it to Limitless and ngl... Lucy kinda ate? yeah the whole 'humans only use 10% of their brain' thing is scientifically outdated as hell. realistically if your brain suddenly operated at 100% all at once you'd probably just have the world's worst seizure instead of becoming an all powerful cosmic being lol but honestly who cares. this movie knew exactly what kind of nonsense it wanted to be and went ALL IN. that's why i ended up enjoying Lucy way more than Limitless. while Limitless got stuck in boring finance bro fantasy territory, Lucy just slammed the accelerator and started throwing electromagnetic vision, telekinesis, time manipulation, and literal transcendence at the screen like "fuck it we ball." the pacing is also crazy efficient. the movie's only around 90 minutes long but it moves FAST. no dragging. no wasting time. every scene feels like it's sprinting toward complete madness and somehow that works in its favor. i never got bored for a second. Scarlett Johansson absolutely stunning too. watching Lucy slowly transform from a terrified, vulnerable student into this cold almost untouchable omnipotent entity was genuinely so fascinating. by the end she barely even feels human anymore and that progression was cool as hell to watch. also the visual direction... weirdly fire... idk how to explain it. Luc Besson randomly inserting nature documentary footage in between scenes should NOT have worked as well as it did 😭 but somehow the shots of predators hunting prey actually made the tension hit harder. and all the CGI stuff with Lucy seeing electromagnetic waves, bending reality, and perceiving time differently looked insanely cool for a movie this chaotic. like yeah, beneath all the philosophical sci-fi dressing, Lucy is basically just a really dumb popcorn action movie pretending to be 2001: A Space Odyssey, but honestly that's exactly what makes it fun. it's ambitious in the dumbest possible way and i kinda respect it for that. i know a lot of people clown on this movie because the science is nonsense, but at least Lucy had the guts to fully commit to its "what if?" concept until the very end. it actually explored the idea of limitless intelligence to absurd cosmic levels instead of chickening out halfway through. sometimes execution matters more than realism and Lucy understood the assignment.