12 Sci Fi Films That Will Melt Your Brain

6. Lucy

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Hang on, you’re probably thinking. What is some Luc Besson film doing on this list?

Starring Black Widow herself Scarlett Johannson during her “sci-fi weirdo” reinvention (shout out to Under the Skin, another underrated 2014 hit), Lucy is a 2014 action thriller from the Leon director which initially seems like a gender-flipped remix of the Bradley Cooper vehicle Limitless.

By its bizarre denouement, however, the film has moved into seriously trippy territory for a mainstream release, with its frankly insane and hard-to-decipher climax rivalling anything else on this list for sci-fi trippiness and affirming that, urban legend or not, no one should want to access that rumoured dormant 90% of their brain any time soon.

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