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Summary: Leon-The Cleaner
Review: Leon, that's his name. They call him the cleaner. He kills people for money, until he meets Mathilda.... Mathilda is a young girl who's entire family has been slaughtered by a corrupt DEA officer. She lives with leon and also want to be a cleaner. They do a lot of jobs together and run into the DEA officer again, its payback time.. Good action/drama movie with a lot of atmosphere..
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Summary: Great until......
Review: If you're a Jean Reno fan, you'll love this. The movie has everything you want, until about 30 minutes in, when his character considers shooting Natalie Portman's Matilde. Prior to that point, it's great (particularly when Reno's character goes to the movies). Afterwards, it's hokey and unbelievable. Also, and maybe this is a "cultural thing", but Besson clearly believes that the prepubescent (at this time) Portman is sexually interesting. Aiello, Portman, and Oldman all do very well, and of course Reno never makes a false move, so what's wrong here? Either the screenplay or the director, I think.
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Summary: Great film, great romance
Review: I admit I'm a sucker for Jean Reno and his sunglasses. He's an odd actor and he's done his share of odd films, but none has touched me as deeply as "The Professional" which marked the film debut of Natalie Portman as a young girl who escapes the slaughter of her entire family by taking refuge with a hitman. (Reno) Mathilda's family life is less than ideal. Her father is a drug-dealer, her mother is pretty much indifferent to the family and her older sister is a bully and a fool. The only family member Mathilda can connect to is her little brother. Outside of her family she also connects, or wants to connect, to Léon the stranger who lives down the hall, on whom she practices the few feminine wiles she's managed to pick up, not that Léon notices. However, when a group of crooked cops murder everyone in Mathilda's family while she's out getting groceries, Léon is the only one she can turn to for help. With incredible presence of mind she walks past the bloody scene in her apartment and rings his bell, and from that moment on he becomes her family. Mathilda wants to learn from Léon, she wants him to teach her how to become a "cleaner" so that she can take her revenge on the cop Stansfield (Gary Oldman giving one of the more bizarre performances of his career) and his men. And because Mathilda is thirteen going on thirty-five, and knows how to get a point across, Léon eventually agrees. The central focus of this film is the relationship that blooms between them. It's not that of a father and daughter, nor is there anything avuncular about the way Léon treats Mathilda. There's an element of teacher/student here, and perhaps even something of a brother/sister feeling, but underneath everything there is a kind of impossible longing between these two people which the wise-beyond-her-years Mathilda eventually verbalizes when she announces to Léon that she is in love with him. And Léon, who doesn't begin to understand women of any age, (he had to leave Italy because of woman trouble) is stunned. He doesn't know what to think or what to do about this child-woman he's now stuck with. But of course her age makes anything more impossible, and eventually dooms them to be parted. It's in this parting, which takes place in a blaze of gunfire that you understand that they understand their feelings for each other, that what they feel is the love of equals. "The Professional" is a profoundly moving film because the love Léon and Mathilda feel for each other is so transcendent and so completely doomed from the start. There is nothing prurient here, nothing done for titillation or shock value, but rather there is a bittersweet acceptance that there simply are connections which cannot flourish along socially acceptable lines. I cry buckets over the ending every time I see it. This one is not for the faint of heart.
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Summary: Leon
Review: I was impressed by Leon's appearance which was fought to the end for the person who loved. In the first, Machilda and Leon lived in the same apartment house, and they had a nodding acquaintance. But a new relationship between two people starts taking advantage of the murder case that her family is killed. He had been a killer only cruelly and solitarily. But he has come to human feelings while meeting Machilda, and spending the same time as her. However, this movie ends with the herofs sad death. But between them, deep love and stiff mutual trust was born, and I think that it become very important in the life of Machilda. I think that such a relationship between two people is very wonderful, and envied.
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Summary: The Michaelangelo of directors!
Review: This was the movie that made me the Luc Besson fan that I am today. Up until I saw this I had never been so blown away by the camera work and artistic integrity of a film. It really is a work of art. Besson's films are always a pleasure to watch, in the short moments you are able to detach yourself from the plot you cannot help but be overwhelmed by the sheer beauty, the colour, vibrancy and overall ambience of each scene. It is interesting to see Natalie Portman in such a strong role so young, I think she is one of very few child actors who could have pulled it off. Jean Reno, a household name in France is just as spell-binding as the hitman with a heart and Gary Oldman is delectably evil as the bent copper. I would not change the casting for a second. Do yourself a favour and if you haven't seen this masterpiece, go now, do not walk, run to your nearest video shop and maybe you too will discover the true beauty of this film.
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Summary: An strong action/thriller professional film by Luc Besson.
Review: I own both versions on this film on DVD, the american and france version. But the version from France is a stronger movie, it deals better between the freindship of Leon(Jean Reno) and Mathilda(Natalie Portman). Leon really teaching her the rope of becoming of professional hit-man. This version clear and better explain than american version. This version adds 24 minutes of additonal footage, it was relase twice in france, this was very popular there and american version was an modest success at the box office with not so strong reviews. now six years later. Critics has tuned around to give this film a second look, they have liked it better. This DVD features digitally remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, which is good and Fine widescreen transer(2.35;1).Also isoleted music score by Eric Serra. This DVD, could use more extras like behind the scenes featurette or Audio Commnetary by the director and cast. Still Extremely well made film is more than action film, is about love, passion and emotion, that what made this film a clut classic. Grade:A. Technovision.
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Summary: Leon- The Professional (Uncut International Version)
Review: Bottom line: If you have seen The Professional, you probably thought it was a great action-drama with some wierd unexplained plot twists! You were correct, and the reason is because they left out these 24 minutes! The extra 24 minutes, gives meaning to Leon's lonely existance, and explains why Leon came to America in the first place. It also explains why Matilda (Natalie Portman) would think she can go take out the corrupt cops that killed her family after just one lesson on how to fire a rifle. The main reason all the footage was cut for American audiences is the continued resurfacing of Matilda's believed love for Leon. If you heard/thought The Professional was good, you need to see this full version... 'CAUSE IT IS EVEN BETTER!!!
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Summary: Reno Gem
Review: Grab a glass of MILK and enjoy!
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Summary: An Excellent Movie!
Review: This has to be one of the more touching movies that I have seen. The professional hit man takes in a young girl whose entire family has been killed by crooked policemen. It is quite cute how the professional killer makes protecting the young girl one of his prime objectives. His teaching the child how to be a cleaner is also a good part of the movie. At the beginning of the movie the "professional" shows that he is good at what he does. He is truly a professional hit man. During the film he is constantly having to protect the child from imminent dangers. Besides being a touching movie it has excitement just as well. This movie has an excellent plot. This is a movie that you will not soon forget. Be sure to watch it. I wish that it could have ended differently.
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Summary: BRILLIANT!!!
Review: I first saw this movie a couple of years ago. And I thought it was really great, but unfortionately my dim-whitted brother messed up the tape. So I didn't see this movie again since recently. It was even better than I remembered. It has it all. Great'action which still does not manage to steal the picture from the main issue of the film, which is an italian hit man, and an orphan named Matilda. I think it is one of the only sad film which didn't have me smiling or indiffrent in the end.
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