Lucy

"Luc Besson hasn’t helmed a ludicrous sci-fi flick since The Fifth Element, though he’s been a successful hands-on producer of a string of hits in the interim – Taken, The Transporter, and so on. With Lucy he follows this high star-power, mid-budget formula, casting Scarlett Johansson as an unwitting drug mule transformed by the experimental chemical inside her, a substance that unlocks the 90% of the human brain we allegedly don’t use."

"A garish, trippy, wildly uneven and finally quite disarming piece of work, graced by a moment-to-moment unpredictability."

"Buoyed by Johansson's presence, Besson keeps his entertainment machine purring. He may be a hack, but he's also a reliable entertainer."

"The end of the movie goes completely off the rails, but in a way that is charming in its stupidity."

"Earns points for its unpredictable treatment of its vaguely superhero-ish premise and an appealing silliness, but it struggles to match wits with the genius at its center."

"Plays more like a big dumb superhero flick than sci-fi."