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Summary: Better than the stinky remakes with the ugly chick!
Review: This is the original and the only Nikita in my world! Have you even see 'Point of No Return' or the Nikita series on television!This movie is good from beginning to end and I like this film cause you really never know when the film is going to end and how. First off, near the end she seems like she's done with the Hitman lifestyle but then WHAM! she's hit with another mission and you can see her life swaying towards her incontrolling past. Overall a great foregin movie and good for the Action lover in all of us! Now yell it with me! NIKITAAAAAAAA!
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Summary: The Anti-Eliza Doolittle
Review: Remember in "My Fair Lady" when Rex Harrison transforms flower girl Audrey Hepburn into a sophisticated member of higher society? Well, that's the same premise behind director Luc Besson's "La Femme Nikita" - only this time around the object of the metamorphosis is turned into a professional assassin. Anne Parillaud plays a troubled drug addict who attempts to rob a drugstore along with some fellow junkies. The robbery goes horribly wrong and she kills a police officer in the melee. The courts sentence her to death but her execution is faked and Nikita is shipped to a secret government training center where she is slowly programmed to kill. Nikita complies with her new role in life until she meets a grocery store clerk and falls in love with him. The onslaught of new emotions complicate matters and Nikita must choose whether to follow her current path in life or carve out a new one for herself. Parillaud is exceptional in the role of Nikita. She gives a performance that is both feral and touching at the same time. There are also welcome turns by Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, and Jean Reno which enhances the film even more. If there's anyone out there who doubts whether a solid action film can be made with a female lead, then that person should just take a look at La Femme Nikita and all doubts will be erased.
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Summary: Excellent film. A presence hard to find in "action" films
Review: I saw this movie after I had seen its American copy, Point of no Return. I had not been expecting much, but was blown away. Anne Parillaud projects a remarkable sense of uncaring menace as the "before" street punk. No small part of this is the fact that she does not look very physically imposing ( Waif-like actually), but manages to make her physically dominant scenes believeable.The pace and images in the film are clean and easy to follow, even in subtitled french. Highly recommended, a much better film that Point of No Return. (Fonda fans should consider Kiss of the Dragon, instead)
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Summary: Do you speak French?
Review: If not then stay away from this thing. It does not translate at all. Jeez, you would think we'd at least get an accent or two considering that the setting is obviously somewhere in Europe for crying out loud? Anne Parillaud plays the killer in desperate need of a [...] enhancement. The French guy from The Patriot plays her opposite, very convincingly too if you turn off the sound. Incredibly, this movie is much better in French without the subtitles. Better than a sleeping pill. [...]
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Summary: The real one
Review: This is the original movie. With spirit, not just big explosion like it's american copie...
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Summary: heartpounding
Review: This is a great action packed movie from beginning to end. It kept me on the edge of my set. I have seen the american version "Point of No Return." Both are fabulous movies worth owning. If I had to choose between the two I would say definitely the "LaFemme Nikita" with english subtitles. You won't reget it.
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Summary: Over rated
Review: Too much over rated,
the first 1 hour of the movie seemed to be like a year due to very very boring conversations, plus some loss ends and unclear vision for example no reall follow up on how the life of NIKITA changed during the training. Just cuts of the pictuers. I did nto like it DO NOT BUY IT
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Summary: Lean, mean killing machine
Review: Luc Besson has directed a no-hold-bars film in "La Femme Nikita" (boringly remade years later in Hollywood as "Point of No Return"), the story of a street junkie, who with her three thugs-in-arms shoots up a pharmacy, and when her cohorts are killed by the police, she murders a policeman in cold blood. Nikita is a sociopath without a heart, a soul or a conscience. She is sentenced to 30 years in prison for her crime ("I'll kill you all!" she screams at the judge and the spectators as it takes four burly cops to drag her out of the courtroom) and finds that she's been officially declared dead. She's offered a new life as an assassin for the French secret service. She can take it or leave it. If she agrees, she's reborn with a new identity. If she refuses, she'll be in a hole in the ground. Nikita's boss, Bob, sees some potential in her. She's beautiful (once she's cleaned up and made up), sexy and a crack shot. She's also totally undisciplined. Her training is headed for disaster until he tells her she has two weeks to shape up or she's history. And shape up she does. Nikita is turned into a sexy bombshell trained to kill at a moment's notice. On her first assignment, she guns down three people in a restaurant and finds her planned escape route is a deliberate booby trap. It's up to her to find her own way out. And she does, but not to freedom. Nikita learns that the secret service owns her, body and soul. And they're never going to let her go. Let out of the confines of her training ground, Nikita has to learn to live in society. She also falls in love. Actually, Nikita loves two people. Her paramour, Marco, a grocery clerk who sees through the pretense she has built up around herself but loves her enough not to blow her cover, is there for her whenever she needs him. But her real love is her trainer Bob, who cannot or will not return her feelings and uses her as cold-bloodedly as he would use a pit bull. As the killings pile up, Nikita just wants out. Whether or not she can find a way out or make one, is the film's climax. Or is it an anti-climax? It's up to the viewer to determine. The acting in the film is great throughout. Anne Parillaud plays Nikita to the hilt; we feel all her rage at society, her self-destructive viciousness, and finally, her sense of total loss and despair at the morass she finds herself trapped in. Jean-Hughes Anglade projects a Spaniel-like fidelity as her boyfriend Marco. But the most compelling character in this movie is Tchéky Karyo as Bob, an iceberg with an inner fire he can't afford to ignite. And Luc Besson's direction helps to make this film the great movie it is. It's suspense-action-drama at its best.
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Summary: no downside to this flick
Review: I normally don't watch violent or gory movies, but caught this after being recommended to watch the professional by Luc Besson. fell in love with tcheky Karyo and already liked Jean Reno,(first saw him in French Kiss.) Ann is perfect for the part, the american series of Nikita can't even touch this movie! Taunt action, shocking scenes, great stunt work, and shootings and death with a message, what more can you ask for? made me wish I understood more french, so I wouldn't have to rely on subtitles. don't go dubbed EVER!! you must hear these peoples actual voices, it makes the movie even more powerful if that is possible. Not for everyone, but if you like a realistic action-packed story with good parts developement, especially Ann,and Tcheky with everything in its place, check out this movie. If you are like me, you will need to watch it several times to get really into all the details. each time I watch it I find something new to think over afterwards. (Same with the Professional.) Luc Besson gets slammed alot over here in the U.S. but I think he is alot better than most of our viewing public is aware. (we are used to to much american [movies].)
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Summary: Watched it at least 10 times now - one of the best!
Review: Loony street-smart woman turns her life around with the help of the French secret intelligence agency. There is a catch though, they own her. See how she turns from a psychopathic brat, to a leathal and beautiful assassin.
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