La Femme Nikita
A convicted felon is given a second chance as a political assassin working for the government in this action thriller from Luc Besson.
When drug-addicted teen Nikita (Anne Parillaud) shoots a cop in a robbery gone wrong, her sentence is death. But behind prison walls, she is given a secret ultimatum: harness her penchant for violence, or face her executioner. After three years of martial arts, weapons and etiquette training, Nikita is reborn as Josephine, a sexy, sophisticated assassin, released back into normal society with instructions to build a cover life for her killer job.
- Director:
- Luc Besson ('The Fifth Element', 'Léon: The Professional', Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets')
- Writer:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Anne ParillaudMarc DuretPatrick FontanaAlain LathièreJean RenoTchéky KaryoJean-Hugues AngladeJeanne MoreauJacques Boudet
Reviews & comments
The New York Times
pressA slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass.
Rolling Stone
pressVery Little in this French thriller makes sense, but it's all savagely engrossing because of the performance of Anne Parillaud in the title role. She's a spellbinder.
Roger Ebert
pressBegins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation.
Los Angeles Times
pressThis is not French filmmaking at its best; it's a copy of American studio work, with a few bent wisps of feeling drifting in. Yet good mechanics can make half-good machines, and that's what Besson has done here.
Entertainment Weekly
pressThe movie is the art-house Blue Steel, and it may prove irresistible to women who’ve spent years watching farfetched male action thrillers and — quite understandably — want a few to call their own.
The New York Times
pressA slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass.
Rolling Stone
pressVery Little in this French thriller makes sense, but it's all savagely engrossing because of the performance of Anne Parillaud in the title role. She's a spellbinder.
Roger Ebert
pressBegins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation.
Los Angeles Times
pressThis is not French filmmaking at its best; it's a copy of American studio work, with a few bent wisps of feeling drifting in. Yet good mechanics can make half-good machines, and that's what Besson has done here.
Entertainment Weekly
pressThe movie is the art-house Blue Steel, and it may prove irresistible to women who’ve spent years watching farfetched male action thrillers and — quite understandably — want a few to call their own.
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