From the very beginning of his film works director and screenwriter LUC Besson creates some of the best and toughest female characters on the screen. The group, which included the heroine of "Nikita" / La Femme Nikita /, "Leona pro" / The Professional / and "The Fifth Element" / The Fifth Element / now joins Scarlett Johansson ("Captain America: Winter Soldier" / Captain America The Winter Soldier / "Avengers" / The Avengers /) as the title Lucy. The latest production Besson, being the quarterback at a dizzying pace thriller also see Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman ("The Dark Knight Rises" / The Dark Knight Rises /, "Amnesia" / Oblivion /). In the film, the director leads not only fast-paced action, but also delves into the issues of the human brain, which can be shared with a man at the moment of reaching the deepest and use 100 percent capacity gray cells.
Mankind has long spins hypotheses about the minimal use of the potential human brain. For centuries, the ongoing scientific speculation about what would happen if a man could cross the borders of the average abused that authority. What would happen to our consciousness and cognitive capabilities if each brain region showed the highest activity at the same time? If each of the 86 billion tightly packed neurons in the human mind has demonstrated activity at the same time, if it would give a man the opportunity to acquire superhuman qualities?
In the story, which spins on the screen Besson, Lucy, a young, living in Taiwan student is pushed, by her boyfriend to provide important briefcase to a certain businessman. Even before the girl realizes what became entangled, become a hostage ruthless Mr. Jang (CHOI MIN SIK of "Oldboy", "Lady Vengeance"), on whose orders the body Lucy is surgically sewn pack with a strong synthetic substance that resembles drug. Lucy realizes that if this 'charge' in her body accidentally leaked implanted substance would probably mean death for her. And it is quite likely considering that at the request of the bandits has to go to the other end of the world, making smuggling material that is for her tormentors extremely high value. Such a scenario makes the horror the girl turns into desperation.