A Touch Too Much

Rating: 5/10 (1 March 2017)

Coerced by someone she thought was her friend, "Lucy" (Scarlet Johansson) is taken prisoner by a Korean drug lord named "Mr. Jang" (Min-sik Choi) and forced to become a drug mule for him. To that end, a packet of a new drug called CPH4 is surgically inserted into her abdomen and she is told that she must take it from Taipei it to a city in Europe. However, prior to leaving she is treated rather harshly by one of her captors which results in the bag breaking open and releasing a large quantity of the new drug into her system. This causes her to have increased mental powers which continue to rise to an alarming degree. And using the new powers that she comes upon she also gains revenge on those who put her in this predicament. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this started off rather well but began to get out-of-control towards the end. It was all a touch too much. Perhaps if the director (Luc Besson) had kept things moving at a slower pace then it's possible this film could have really been something special. Unfortunately, he kept upping the ante to the point that it bordered on the ridiculous. Again, while this wasn't a bad film necessarily it could have been much better and I have rated it accordingly. Average.