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The Touch
Director: Peter Pau
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin, Richard Roxburgh
 Michelle Yeoh, the action-queen of Hong Kong, with films like 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon', 'Tomorrow Never Dies' and 'Project-X', returns to the screen in yet another action-adventure flick, 'The Touch'.
And as in most of this genre of films, it is to retrive a relic, which, if it falls in the wrong hands, would lead to the destruction of the world and give unlimited power to the unscruplous. Michelle Yeoh, apart from playing the lead role, also produces the film.
It's a mild adventure story, with a by-now-familiar plot. The exciting scenes are undoubtedly the ones Yeoh appears in, her acrobatic acts, and the closing scenes where she evades the deathly traps and retrieves the relic.
The Sharira relic, purported to contain the essence of a holy monk, is hidden by the monks in a place where no ordinary human could reach it. To ensure that the relic is retrieved when the right time comes, the monks turn to a family of acrobats. For hundreds of years this family has trained, passing on its skill to perform the ultimate leap when the time comes.
Yeoh In and her brother Tong are the last heirs of this family. One day Eric, a man from Yeoh's past, shows up. Eric has a medallion, a key which would unlock the Sharira's secrets.
The journey to rediscover the Sharira is a dangerous one, with traps set in hidden caves, and with Karl, an unscrupulous man, wanting to get his hands on the Sharira, hot on their trail. Whether Yeoh In evades the traps and retrieves the Sharira forms the rest of the story.
Malini Mannath
Published on 14th Jan, 2004
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