A new red-band clip has arrived online for Lucy, in which Scarlett Johansson shows off her badass credentials as the titular gun-toting heroine.

The new clip sees Lucy in full Natasha Romanoff mode, as she manages to turn a seemingly impossible predicament into a fist-pumping action sequence.

However, while the Black Widow favours neck-crushing acrobatics, our girl Lucy takes the more straightforward approach offered by a trusty pistol.

Take a look at the new clip, below…

The premise of the film is that while the average human uses only 10% of their brain, Lucy has been a genetically modified to use 100% of hers. And apparently, that previously untapped 90% translates itself most obviously into ass-kicking…

Directed by Luc Besson and co-starring Morgan Freeman and Analeigh Tipton, Lucy will open in the UK on 22 August 2014.