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Anne Parillaud,
Anne Parillaud,
Jean-Hugues Anglade,
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Luc Besson,
Luc Besson
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: MGM
: Foreign, France
: 117 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is a lethal toxin. Instead of dying, however, the comes to in an all-white interrogation room, where French intelligence officer Bob (Tchéky Karyo), informs her that an alternate to execution exists: she can receive covert government training as an assassin. She accepts the bid, is rigorously trained, and later returns to society as a seemingly normal and gentle civilian, but falls in love with a drugstore employee while she's waiting for that first government assignment. The paradoxical concept of a young woman blossoming socially while carrying out cold-blooded murders was downplayed when La Femme Nikita was remade in America as the silly and disappointing Point of No Return, directed by John Badham with Bridget Fonda in the lead. A far less sociopathic TV-series version of La Femme Nikita surfaced on the USA cable network in early 1997. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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by jetyi83
December 22, 2004 - 3:02 PM PST
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0 out of 13 members found this review helpful
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| this movie might have been good when it came out but it doesnt stand the test of time.. The entire movie is predictable because tons of movies since have taken the exact same storyline and done it again. It has scenes from the insane asylum from terminator, and the plot is identical to point of no return, which i didnt realize. I thought point of no return sucked too so i guess i should have read the review first. I rented it because i liked the professional, and thought this might be good since it is the same director. But after 5 minutes, then 10 minutes of fast forward i see that it is a bad choice. Its not a realistic movie, the thing is just too fake for my tate, and its not because the plot is too fake, its just the style of the film wasnt created realistically. The actors say cheesy things, and have cheesey reactions. Dont rent. |
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