How would you translate "overkill" in Italian?

Question

In a sentence like "This is an overkill solution", with the purpose of conveying the idea that the proposed solution does too much and should be discarded in favour of a simpler one.This is a list of translations that I find sub-optimal: 1. Una soluzione esagerata 2. Una soluzione troppo complicata

Answer 1

The expression 'overkill solution' sounds awkward in English. 'Overkill' is mostly informal and is usually a noun (not an adjective); e.g., "This is ridiculous overkill." A better translation of 'overkill' as an adjective in 'This is an overkill solution' might be "Questa è una soluzione drastica," which sounds idiomatic to a native Italian speaker.