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Ohhh, now, I get it. I used to wonder what in the world everyone on Reddit was talking about when saying Dakota Johnson could't act. But now, I do understand. She in fact can't. Whether it is Madame Web or a Lucy, you can't really tell the difference. Even in serious scenes, it really feels like she is about to burst in laughter. And from various interviews, it appears she is just like that, constantly hooked on a laughing gas, in real life (why wouldn't she be, she was born into money and probably doesn't know about hardships of life). So I guess she is not acting at all but just spewing a character's (doesn't matter which character apparently) lines as she would have said them herself.

Apart from subpar acting from the protagonist, the movie features extremely cheesy and childish dialogues from middle-aged men. I don't know about you but a grown man telling a woman he wants to be (like be be) with her after just 1 date is kind of cringy. Even worse, he decides to propose to her after a few sleepovers. You don't even know her to want to be with her. Sexual attraction is there and gone in a flash. Bizarre behavior.

But it does portray the dating life in New York City pretty accurately. Pretty average (including the look) women here do in fact have outlandish requirements for their mates. I remember when I was a student, a girl invited me to a steakhouse. While having a meal, she mentioned she didn't care how much he (whoever he is) earned, as she wanted to achieve everything on her own. After the dinner, I reached for my wallet to pay the bill but she stopped me, saying, "The one who invites pays. I wanted your company but I didn't know whether you had money or not. So when inviting you, I considered covering the bill." Well, makes sense (even though I was raised differently). A couple of decades later and I'm not sure whether it is the new generation that is out of its mind or the world changed. Today's women demand he makes a 6-figure salary at the very least, he is handsome, and this new obsession... tall. First of all, if he possesses all of these qualities, why in the world would he need you? And secondly, what is with this height non-sense? I see it all the time in Tinder, 6' minimum. I understand that the evolution has created this subconscious belief in women that bigger men are better protectors. But we are not cavemen anymore. What do women need the height for? I can see what you can do with a few million dollars. But what are you going to do with height?!

The film shows a bunch of these needy women who lack any self-reflection, and makes the viewer want dating less and less. In fact, there are these moments in the movie when Lucy is trying to convince Harry and later John that they don't need her. Unsurprisingly, she convinced me. Now, I am not sure what I might need a woman for. I earn enough for my personal needs, I cook better than most women, I experience no loneliness, and there is just so much interesting to learn and do in today's world. What do I need extra baggage for? You know what, I'm deleting Tinder.

Thanks "Materialists"!

The only thing I do not understand is the reason this movie is listed under science fiction. This is exactly how people will act when the food shortage hits the world, and it will hit us. Forget about viruses killing all animals, by 2050, we are guaranteed to have food shortages around the world due to the increased population, deforestation, decreasing soil fertility, climate change, unsustainable farming practices, and other factors. And just like this movie portrays, humans will lose their humanity and behave worse than animals (at least those are cruel unintentionally; they have no consciousness to comprehend their actions). So it is more of an action-drama than Sci-Fi.

A bit slow in the beginning. Could have been editted and cut for a shorter runtime. But overall, pretty good. Well shot with good acting and nice action. Gory at times but that is just to illustrate the point.

You've read the plot already, you know what the story is. So if you like Mad Max on a budget, feel free to give this a try.

Imagine you are pinned to the ground and the attacker is using all of his weight to stab you with a knife. You are barely holding him with your two hands and the knife is closer and closer to your face when you decide to reach for something sharp or a gun a foot away from you. So now, you are holding the attacker's pressure with just one hand, trying to get that object with your second one... This is the kind of stupidity that is forced upon you by this movie. It is a broad daylight rape of a viewer's intelligence.

This movie has it all: unlimited bullets, enemies running towards those unlimited bullets, enemies with guns rushing into hand-to-hand combat instead of shooting, enemies lining up to get their ... handed to them instead of just jumping all together, and of course unrealistic Netflix-style female strength. I mean we see some Seal Team Six-type special Ops who have just successfully eliminated several other professionals, showing they are not a slack, getting their ... kicked by a skinny girl. Cliches don't stop there. We see a reel of training sessions that create the lethal killer, Ballerina, and she suffers blows after blows until she is told something by her instructor, at which point, she becomes a super human and absolutely destroys an opponent who she had no chance against just a minute ago. And before you say I'm being sexist, it has nothing to do with the protagonist being a woman. John Wick series of films was just as eye-rolling and outrageous.

Poor casting adds an insult to the injury. It is not revealed what the age of Eve Macarro, the future Ballerina, is at the time her father is killed. I would guess she is 8 based on her appearance. That means she becomes an assassin by 20. Ana De Armas is an attractive woman but she definitely doesn't look 20. For crying out loud, she is close to double that age, and it really shows. Do you seriously want me to believe that is a 20-year old girl with eye-bags running around?

The acting is just as wooden as you would expect with everyone unnaturally overacting to emphasize a point. No actual humans in real life talk or gesticulate like that.

You would think that since an action movie lacks proper CGI (laughable at times: for instance, when there are drone shots of moving cars; I've seen more realistic car models in computer games than in this movie), has no real acting, no plot so to speak, it should put more emphasis on fighting and choreography, right? Wrong! Childish fighting. Chris Hemsworth's "Extraction"'s fight scenes are levels and levels above of what you will see in this movie. At times, it feels more of a fan movie than a Hollywood production. Apart from some visually impressive explosions and flame throwers, there is nothing to see here.

I only wish this is the last movie in the series. Please, please stop!