Lucy (2014)

  Now you know I had to see this film, for good or bad, and I'm happy to report that it's pretty good.

Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is an American citizen studying in Taiwan who just likes to party.  She meets some guy at a club who convinces her that she can make some easy money by delivering a briefcase to Korean gangster Jang (Choi Min-Sik).  Jeng has other plans, however, and decides to make Lucy a mule for his newest experimental club drug.  During transport, one of the bags sewn into her abdomen breaks open, flooding her body with the drug.  It boosts her brain function to the point where she can influence matter outside her body, view spectra outside the visible, and influence electric and magnetic fields.  She uses these powers to contact leading neurologist, Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), and French police Captain Pierre del Rio (Amr Waked) to help her come to grips with her reality and track down the other mules, respectively.

Luc Besson wrote and directed this movie.  Directed, you can clearly tell, by the amount of ass-kicking Johansson does and the fact that she's in almost every scene.  Written, you can see because Besson is not a scientist and does not claim to be.  The idea that humans only use 10% of their brainpower is a fallacy that has been disproven.  Human brains are models of automation and most of its function tends toward autonomic responses, like breathing and regulating the sensory input it receives so the cognitive functions can ignore it in favor of other things.  Like how your nose is always in your field of vision but your brain ignores it so you can focus on shit like the car in front of you slamming on its brakes.

Once you let go of the idea that this movie is in any way an accurate representation of science, it becomes a ridiculously entertaining film.  B-movie?  Yes, but there's no shame in that.  Go with it and have a good time.