Lucy

From La Femme Nikita and The Professional to The Fifth Element, writer/director Luc Besson has created some of the toughest, most memorable female action heroes in cinematic history. Now, Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

Lucy also stars Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman and examines the possibility of what one human could do if they unlocked 100 percent of their brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of their mind.

Critic Reviews:

• " It's a film that takes great delight in her essentially co-opting a long series of tropes and storylines typically reserved for men in stories of this type, which is an old trope in the feminist action movie wheelhouse. " – Emily VanDerWerff

• " let it grab you by the noodle and zap you into its whacked-out vision of human existence. You'll feel much better for it, I promise. " – David Sims

• " [A] supremely silly and pleasurable action movie. " – Kate Muir