Gaining Time

Rating: 8/10 (11 June 2020)

Like Edmond O'Brien in 'D.O.A.', Scarlett Johansson becomes for the duration a vengeful killing machine as the result of ingesting an ultimately lethal drug. And like Cliff Robertson in 'Charley' and Ray Milland in 'The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' what she discovers along the way both transforms and overwhelms her.
Ms Johansson plays yet another of her fantastical superwomen crossed with one of Luc Besson's lethal ladies surrounded by a swift, hallucinatory production that clocks in at a commendably succinct 90 minutes.