Fascinating, watchable and understandable

Rating: 9/10 (3 September 2014)

Scarlett Johansson plays a student in Taiwan who inadvertently gets caught up in drug smuggling and is exposed to a drug that makes her maximize her brain capacity way beyond normal boundaries. The bio sci fi is fascinating and stylishly filmed. Like the National Geographic like counterpoint imagery. The action is enough to keep action fans entertained. The car chase through Paris is quite something. On top of that you have Korean popular influence which is in so many current movies represented here. Liked the look back in time. You get a lot in this movie and it's held together by a strong performance by the moving and lovely Scarlett Johansson. You feel for her and that is not easy in a sci fi movie.
Unlike Inception and the like this is sci fi you can follow and understand. May not get every part of it but it's okay. For this kind of movie it makes enough sense How versatile Luc Besson is - someone who can write Taken and this. Worth a watch.