maybe it's coz i'd seen the TV series before but i did not enjoy the film as much. still, besson's a good director, promoting sexual inequality, but skillful
Luc Besson's second best movie behind The Professional, the music is great the action is stylish yet brutal, but what really stands out is the chemistry between the Nikita and Bob that the american remake failed to achieve in Point of No Return. This is a must see for everyone.
Luc Besson managed to create the most mental-twisted but at the same time most understandable movie character of all time!Anne Parillaud made this contradiction make sense!bravo!
I loved this movie when I saw it circa 1995 or 1996. Then the show came out and it lost all credibility. Why oh why make a fantastic movie into a lame tv show? It loses points for spawning the tv show (sorry Nikita).
Great movie! Strange ending. Some violence, but not just for violence sake (like too many movies), but shows Nikita's struggle to leave her violent ways and settle down with the man she loves.
I have never been able to get into this movie, the main character is just too irritating to take seriouslly. The direction is good, story so-so, the whole thing just feels aimless and never convinces.
this movie impressed me, so emotionally intense. Anne Parillaud in her black dress will be in my eyes for a long time! I must mention the ending, so merciless and unusually breathtaking. What a movie...
I was told it was on par with "The Professional." Not even close. Although iAnne Parillaud and Tcheky Karyo make it better than its American remake (Point of No Return), it still seemed kind of "meh" to me.
This film is supposed to have got great reviews when it first came out and yet it still lives up to it for a first time viewer 17 years later. I found the film interesting and very familuar to many of my other favourite hitman type films, most starring Jean Reno. His acting skills really develop his character throughout Hollywood. Unlike some half-assed actors. Its a great film, worth watching and recommended by many, with some twists and some hidden messages. Good adult fun.
Luc Besson's stylish inventive, ultraviolent, high-energy thriller about the recruitment of a convicted drug addict to be a secret service assassin. This visceral thriller isn't for the squeamish, but I also like to think and have sense of style that I love it.
Anne Parillaud is breathlessly beautiful. If there is one thing you could leave in the wake of a life, to be remembered this way. Beautiful vulnerable and loaded, well then you've got it made now don'tcha?
Decent French action film about a drug addict/street criminal taken in by a shadowy government organization to be trained as a hitwoman.The problem I had with the film is that even after she has been "rehabilitated" the main character is a complete oddball and very hard to relate to.I guess she supposed to be a free spirit or something,I don't know,maybe it's a french thing.Jean Reno livens things up with a small role as a psychotic "cleaner",who's a little too overzealous in his work.Tcheky Karyo also does a nice job as Nikita's handler.The film is slickly directed by Luc Besson,whose follow up,Leon,is a much better film.
This is a fine enough film - sort of a French take on Hollywood, but it did strike me was somewhat heavy on style at the expense of substance. Also I'm not sure that the film's resolution fits so well with the rest of the film, but that's perhaps nitpicking. Definitely worth seeing just for its set pieces though. Remade, almost shot-for-shot as the US film, "Point of No Return".
As a trivial point, I could never figure out why the US version had the more lengthy title "La Femme Nikita", rather than simply "Nikita"... I guess the distributor wanted to emphasise it's Frenchness.
This is the movie that inspired a TV series and a sub-par american version with Bridget Fonda. Look no further than this excellent film of a reluctant female assasin!!
I haven't seen the French version and I have a feeling I would like it so much better. I definitely enjoyed the show, but somehow this iteration just didn't seem like it was giving it its all.
by Wasawat
Good work from a cool visual stylish, Luc Besson.. Anne Parillaud was charming, deep and interesting!! The story was well written and clever.. eventhrough the content just wasn't my taste.
The Cinematography and lighting were great.. I like the way this movie was edited.. and how the camera moment worked with audience.. The scene in the bathroom where Nikita dued with her sniper mission was impacted and cool. The Beginning scene stucked me still on my meal.. it's really cool for a beginning shot and the score was perfect! The rhythm of the score was good and suit with Editing & Cinematography!!
"Well directed, a Good movie experience!"
PS. Jean Reno as Victor the Cleaner was so cool.. wouldn't surprise why he was choosed to playe Leon ;)
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