La Femme Nikita

"A slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass."

"Very 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."

"Begins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation."

"This 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."

"The 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."