Along the way, she enlists the help of world-renowned Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman), whose research on the brain Lucy uses to better understand her powers. With her cerebral capacity steadily increasing, providing her with superhuman powers like telepathy and telekinesis, Lucy sets out to avenge the baddies that put her in this predicament. But when Lucy’s pouch leaks and her body absorbs what would normally be a fatal amount of the drug, something miraculous happens: it increases her brain capacity to previously uncharted degrees. Before Lucy can make heads or tails of what she’s involved in, Jang and his thugs surgically embed the pouches in the stomachs of her and three other unfortunate souls in order to smuggle the drug across Europe. Jang ( Choi Min Sik), she becomes wrapped up in a crazy drug deal involving four priceless pouches of a synthetic drug called CPH4.

When Lucy’s sleazy boyfriend tricks her into delivering a briefcase to his business associate, the dastardly Mr. It’s an interesting question with far-reaching implications, and Besson channels his curiosity into a story about the title character (Scarlett Johansson), a superficial coed living in Taiwan. With a deliriously catchy premise, a clever if outlandishly farfetched screenplay, eye- popping action sequences and larger-than-life performances from the main players, “Lucy” is one badass movie fit for the summer slate.Īn action film with an intellectual bent, “Lucy” explores the following question: What if, instead of humans only being able to access ten percent of their brain capacity, they could access all of it? Perhaps best known as the brainchild behind the 90’s sci-fi extravaganza, “The Fifth Element,” and the box office smashing franchises, “Taken” and “The Transporter,” Besson is back with another summer crowdpleaser. We’re talking a forty million dollar, effects-heavy, beautifully shot, globetrotting colossus of a movie. On top of writing and producing “Brick Mansions” and “3 Days To Kill,” as well as producing the upcoming Tommy Lee Jones film, “The Homesman,” he also wrote and directed the visionary action-thriller called “ Lucy,” starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman.Īnd this isn’t some pet project he made on a shoestring budget in his backyard.

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