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A slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass.
Full reviewA 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.
A slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass.
Full reviewVery 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.
Full reviewBegins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation.
Full reviewThis 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.
Full reviewThe 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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