Pros: Intriguing premise, action, style, good performance by Anne Parillaud Cons: Some script weaknesses, lack of worthwhile message, weak ending
La Femme Nikita is a dynamic action film featuring a unique plot element: the Pygmalion-like transformation of a pathetic, drug-addled female street punk into a methodical government assassin. Otherwise its your basic violent thriller. ...
Pros: beautiful photography characteristic of Cinema de Look Cons: Never was big on Serra - distracting & horridly bubblegum score
As the shogun of the second French New Wave (Cinema De Look), Luc Besson was expected to dish out another international hit to follow the huge success of "The Big Blue" - "La Femme Nikita" delivered. Basically, this movie was...
Action Drama film, La Femme Nikita is a truly electric cinema experience of sex, violence, danger and the vulnerable humanity surrounding it all. Directed by French Filmmaker Luc Besson (famous for directing "Leon: The Professional" ...
Pros: A Luc Besson film which lets you rediscover the beauty of the French language. Nikita, as a personality, is worth exploring for 2 hours. Cons: Barely self-gratifying ending.
French director Luc Besson has one trademark which is apparent in all his films– zest. Interlock that with ornate cinematography and a certain uniqueness in brand that differentiates a Besson film from the usual Hollywood material that gets reeled out...
Pros: Anne Parillaud is brilliant as Nikita Cons: ending feels like a let down
I finally had the opportunity to watch Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita for the first time last night and I must say I really enjoyed the film. I had really enjoyed the Americanized remake (I never thought it was as poor as everyone said it was) but...
Pros: great performances, glorious situational irony Cons: unsatisfying ending
While I mostly hate edgy, drug-tainted, blood-soaked films on principle, this one has a strangely "feminine" touch, i.e. actual emotion, that really notches up the excitement. It's as though Pulp Fiction went to France, had an illicit affair...
Pros: Uniformly fine acting; gay old times at the movies Cons: Both films eventually fall apart
La Femme Nikita-***1/2 (out of five) Killing Zoe-*** (out of five)
When DVD screeners of La Femme Nikita and Killing Zoe arrived simultaneously in my mailbox, I thought I had an angle for a piece: actor Jean-Hugues Anglade,...
Pros: Plot, Acting, Action, Music.... All around excellent Cons: None that strike my mind...
Some of the greatest French movies have been remade for US audiences and no one knows about it: Trois hommes et un couffin/Three men and a baby, The Talented Mr Ripley/Plein Soleil (With Alain Delon - where do you think Matt Damon got his pointers?), Le...
Pros: Action, feasible storyline Cons: gory violence and some bloopers
Anne Parillaud gives a realistic performance as a drug-crazed psychopath, Nikita. She is caught murdering for drugs yet she does not do her time. Instead, Nikita is given the option of becoming a hit-woman under her "counselor", Bob's...
Pros: Main character is fully fleshed out and heartbreaking, beautiful lovestory Cons: None
Luc Besson may have gone on to bigger budgets with movies like The
Professional and The Fifth Element, but he hasn't gotten any better.
Actually, La Femme Nikita...
Pros: Good solid action movie with a few interesting twists and good acting Cons: Can't think of any at the moment
If you like action movies and are interested in watching a solid-quality European thriller this movie is for you. There are not too many (in my opinion) really good European action movies. This one, however, is different and good. In fact, it was good...
Pros: action packed, stylish, sexy and funny Cons: spawned Point of No Return and a not so great tv show
This film is a classic in my book!
Amazing high speed fight/chase scenes that are just amazing.
Nikita is a drugged out kid in the beginning, but after getting locked up she can either serve her country or else. She is trained in everything...
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