"The factions system is a living being composed of cells; all of you. And the only way it can survive and thrive is for each of you to claim your rightful place. The future belongs to those who know where they belong."

"Ashley Judd - Natalie"

"Kate Winslet - Jeanine"

"I think human nature is the enemy. It's human nature to keep secrets, lie, steal, and I want to eradicate that. That's how we'll maintain a stable peaceful society. You would help me with that, wouldn't you?"

"Your last fear is your worst fear. It lives in the deepest part of your mind."

"You got three options. Hang there and I'll forget your cowardice, fall and die, or give up. But if you give up you're out."

"As Dauntless we fight to protect every life inside the fence without fail. That's why we train you the way we do; to teach you not to give up. And to find out who has what it takes. Even though it's been quiet out there for years, that could change at any moment. So we have to be ready for everything."

"Dauntless never give up!"

"Trust the test. The test will tell me who I am, where I belong. Am I smart? Kind? Am I honest? Selfless? Or brave?"

"I'm the weakest one here."

"Points for bravery, Stiff. But not as many you just lost for opening your mouth."

"[When asking for Beatrice's name, she hesitates.] Is it a hard one? You can pick a new one if you want, but make it good. You don't get to pick again."

"Today I take the test. I'm scared it'll tell me I'm not Abnegation, that I have to leave my family. But I'm even more scared that it'll tell me to stay. For my brother Caleb it's easy."

"My brother, he was like you. During the second stage, he got good fast. Last day of the simulations one of the Dauntless leaders came in to watch him. The next morning we found his body at the bottom of the chasm. They got rid of him."

"Ben Lloyd-Hughes - Will"

"Christian Madsen - Al"

"Analeigh Tipton - Caroline"

"Frédéric Chau - Jang's agent"

"Pilou Asbaek - Richard"

"Julian Rhind-Tutt - the Limey"

"Amr Waked - Pierre Del Rio"

"Fans of Johansson's patented flat affect — put to better use in Under the Skin and Marvel's The Avengers — will enjoy Lucy, as too will the kid from your college dorm who ate too many mushrooms that one night. … Nothing much happens in Lucy — the plot on a pinhead: Scarlett Johansson gets roped into being a drug mule for a crime boss in Taipei, and after ingesting her parcel becomes a near deity — but since it's shorter than some commutes, who cares? This is probably a spoiler, but in a movie as confusing and downright weird as Lucy, spoilers are relative."

"She has the Power"

"Set five minutes into the future, Lucy is about the birth of a new kind of superhero. With Scarlett Johansson playing our eponymous ninja with mental superpowers, there's a lot of fantastic action here. … Director Luc Besson is a genius when it comes to visual flair and action, so the action scenes (when we get them) are great. And the first act of the film is possibly one of my favorite superhero origin stories ever. Lucy is a college student in Taipei whose loser boyfriend tricks her into delivering a mysterious suitcase to an even more mysterious group of Taiwan mafia guys. Of course, they immediately kill her boyfriend and then drag her to a hotel room full of other dead people. This whole sequence is fantastic, with Lucy totally out of her depth and Besson interspersing the action with weird nature footage of animals eating each other. The tone is frenetic, ironic, and ultra-comic booky. … For anyone who listened to Johansson's sultry AI voice in Her, the role she plays in Lucy will feel like a reprise — except instead of being a machine who convinces us that she's human, here she's a human who is slowly becoming a machine. The more of her brain she uses, the more she needs to merge with a computer. Eventually, we learn that her destiny is to become an AI of sorts. Which means that she's one of those superheroes with an expiration date, able to kick ass for only a short time before evolving into something incomprehensible and irritatingly mystical. It's this plot point that drives the movie, flailingly, toward an attempt at having a grander message than "kick ass, warp reality, and look damn good.""

"The average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%."

"I think it is such an interesting imagination Luc has going on there … We always think and hear terms like, "We only use 10 percent of our brains" but did anyone ever imagine what it would be like if you could use more? So here comes Luc imaging what could happen if you could use more … With Luc Besson you have a knock-down, drag-out action film but then you have one that also makes you feel and think … It gives a little spark to your imagination to say "What if? What would I do? How would it be?""

"Lucy cleverly capitalizes on Johansson's ascent by placing her in the lead of a movie that takes the best elements of Limitless and The Matrix, and develops them into a unique action property."

"Scarlett Johansson - Lucy"

"There’s a refreshing lack of bull in Lucy. Two minutes into the movie, the titular heroine, a twenty-something raver (Scarlett Johansson) is forced by a d-bag boyfriend (looking like the world’s worst Bono imitator, complete with red sunglasses and cowboy hat) to deliver a mysterious package to a Taipei crime lord. Five minutes in, she’s sliced up, stuffed with the package’s contents — a potent new mind-expanding synthetic drug — and turned into an unwilling mule. Ten minutes in, a kick to the stomach leaks the drugs into her system, rebooting Lucy into a real-world, super-blonde version of Neo from The Matrix. It’s a superhero story that tells the origin tale with an economy and conciseness that’s been lacking through this whole movie summer. Actually, it’s been lacking in these types of movies for a while. Remember how long the Ang Lee version of Hulk took to get to the action? Yeah, Lucy presents the exact opposite. After that quick introduction, Lucy stays pedal-to-the floor for all of its brisk 89 minutes, as the newly-empowered Lucy sets off to track down the rest of the cartel’s unwilling mules, all while the drug unlocks more and more of her brain’s potential (with the bad guys chasing after her). … She busts out and guns down her captors like Rambo. She mind-melds into a brain like Spock. She flings around the cartel bad guys like Magneto, feels living life-forces like Luke Skywalker, drives like Jason Bourne and even jumps through time and space like Doctor Who. Who needs Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and the rest of the Avengers? Lucy could demolish them all, and probably Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman, too. She could take care of the next two movie summers with no trouble at all."

"This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible :"