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Summary: Great Movie
Review: The entire movie is really good until the end. It has action, suspense, comedy, all sorts of good stuff. I won't give away the ending but I will say that it really sucks. I had to dock a star for that.
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Summary: The only DVD I will ever watch every year!
Review: This is the most awesome motion picture ever produced. The story of a hitman, a cold-blooded killer who saves a little girl and takes care of her AND gives her his services freely. This is the most realistic acting I have ever seen in a movie. Those police officers were really scared to enter Leon's apartment-something you do not see in the movies very much. If you watch all the other movies for the second or third time you can see the "acting" that the actors do. not so with this film. This is the best acted, best directed, best produced film of the last half century.
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Summary: Great acting on a superb plot
Review: Heck, I really enjoyed this flick! I don't see how anyone couldn't! Jean Reno is an awesome actor and he did a great job in this movie as the hitman. Then, there' Gary Oldman from The 5th Element as the bad cop. And, we have the last kid of the family, the family that was murdered by the bad cop and his team, Natalie Portman(Star War's Queen Amidala). She was wonderful, only about 13 years of age there, she can act! Oldman always makes a nice bad guy, and Reno is a convincing Good Guy! Watch this movie, and I'll guarentee you'll like it!!!!
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Summary: Jean Reno: The badest of the 2 bad Frenchmen
Review: The Name of the movie is his job, He's a professional. It's a good flick for the ages.
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Summary: A shocker.Unbelieveble
Review: Jean Reno made a right decision.I believe , this was his first movie in the US,and thank,s GOD,hi picked the right one!He was already a megastar in France("Subway" was priceless),but he took this one , here.I watched this movie for at least 20 times in last couple of years,and every time it touches me (what is not easy).This is a story about professional hit man ,but he is a"good guy".This is a story about a dirty coup, a bad guy.But a little girl invited herself in, and everything made a point: we don,t know who is who. Do you want to know? Watch "professional" and you will be surprise!!!
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Summary: Get this version
Review: This is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. The story is incredible and the acting is even better. But do yourself a favor, though, and get this version (not the U.S. release of The Professional). I have no idea why they took out some scenes for the U.S. release but they are truly the best scenes in the movie.
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Summary: Jean Reno est genial!
Review: What a beautifully acted film noir, what a lovely macabre plot and what a touching almost taboo love story. Jean Reno, not the Hollywood defined leading man type is brilliant and touching in this action thriller in slow motion DVD and Gary Oldham is to villain what the coyote was to the roadrunner. The symbolism so common in art films appears in the form of a potted plant Leon cannot separate himself from, whether in solitude or climbing through apartment building windows to get to his destination. The final scene is a tribute to never ending romance. Fifty to one odds the little girl grows up to be Angelina Jolie in "Girl Interrupted".
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Summary: Great Acting + Great Story = Great Film
Review: The only way I can start this review is to say that this movie is amazing; it may just be Besson's best. Leon is the the story of lone "cleaner" Leon(Jean Reno) who forms a relationship with a twelve year-old girl Mathilda(Natalie Portman in her screen debut). Mathilda and Leon come together after her entire family is murdered by a crooked DEA agent named Norman Stansfield(Gary Oldman). Leon then teaches Mathilda some of the tricks of his trade. Mathilda then falls in love with Leon. In the end there is a thrilling shoot-out when Stansfield catches up with the two. This is an excellent film with complex characters and great performances. Natalie Portman is great, but Oldman is riveting as Stansfield. This version of the film contains 24 minutes of footage never seen in the U.S. The extra footage focuses mostly on Mathilda's training but a few scenes go a little deeper into the love story element. I recommend this to anyone who wants to see a great film. 5 stars for an outstanding movie.
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Summary: An injection of life into a killer's cold heart.
Review: Early in Luc Besson's film, "Leon" (aka The Professional), we learn that only master assassins work up close, with their hands or a knife. If that's true then Besson must consider himself a master director as this movie takes the audience up close and personal with some fascinating but ultimately doomed characters.If it seems the title role was written for Jean Reno, that's only because it was. He plays an Italian hit-man who works in New York. Like many immigrants, he is isolated within the new and unfamiliar world. He shares a squalid little apartment with one plant and leaves only to buy provisions, visit his friend, (and manager), Tony, and occasionally see an old movie at the local cinema. His life would be small and insignificant if it weren't for the fact that he is a ruthless killer, working for the Mob. The genius of this film is that it somehow convinces the audience to feel sympathy towards a brutal assassin. This "Professional" is portrayed as somehow fragile while at the same time being perfectly dangerous. He can't read English, doesn't speak much and is clearly being short-changed by Tony, a slick Italian "Family" man played gently by Danny Aiello. When trouble visits Leon's little unit block, he doesn't venture out but prefers to watch from the safety of his door's spy-hole. This particular trouble comes in the form of detective Norman Stansfield, a crooked cop who arrives to visit one of his drug couriers who stupidly gambles his life in an effort to increase his slice of the business. Stansfield, played brilliantly by Gary Oldmam, is a pill-popping psychotic whose only redeeming feature seems to be a love of classical music. Sadly he sees parallels between famous concertos and savage gun battles. In this case, his shotgun version of Beethoven leaves the entire family dead in their apartment; all but 12-year-old Mathilda. Natalie Portman's first major cinematic role, as Mathilda, is impressive. She has to project a broad range for a child character. After growing up as a drug dealer's daughter and then losing even that small security, she is both vulnerable and street smart. And, after convincing Leon to take her in, she also starts to explore her budding sexuality, (a foreshadowing of her role in Beautiful Women). In our politically correct world, 12-year-old girls are not meant to be sexually attractive but that doesn't stop Besson from designing scenes where young Mathilda makes serious attempts to seduce the shy Leon. It's unclear whether she truly feels love or is simply trying to ensure her new place in the world. The result is a strong bond between the two unlikely companions, more familial than sexual. In the end, it is this bond that forces Leon to abandon his years of caution. This is a film that combines a perfect cast with inspired direction, European cinematography and the characteristic score of Eric Serra to create a powerful, sometimes disturbing, experience that will stay with you for years to come.
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Summary: Gritty and conceptually concrete
Review: The way the movie was shot, written, and directed gives it a feel of a classic as well as a modern feel no matter how old it gets. The corruption of a little girl in a drug dealing family and combine it with a hitman as believable as Leon, the combination ends up in innnocence combined with deathscythe in a gun weilding 'damn these guys know how to shoot movies' feel. I highly recommend this to anyone who has seen Snatch, Fifth Element, Memento, or Requiem for a Dream. One of the best films I have ever stumbled upon in years.
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