La Femme Nikita
by Luc Besson
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Actor: Alain Lathi?re, Anne Parillaud, Laura Ch?ron, Marc Duret, Patrick FontanaDirector: Luc Besson
Cinematographer: Thierry Arbogast
Producer: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Producer: Claude Besson
Producer: Mario Cecchi Gori
Producer: Patrice Ledoux
Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of La Femme Nikita
DVD Review: Better than American version
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the original. I do love Point of No Return, but it is so Americanized.DVD Review: Killer Spy Flick
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a unique spy movie amongst so many others.
This french movie with eng subtitles is excellent.
There are only a few secret agent movies that I made sure that I showed my son.
This is one. The American Version "Point of No Return" with Bridget Fonda is excellent too.
DVD Review: So Much Better Than The Point of No Return
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie seems a bit familiar in the first five minutes. Then I realized I had seen the American remake, Point of No Return with Bridgette Fonda.
The remake is so similar that it ruined all the plot twists for Le Femme Nikita. However, if you want to see what the derivative could have been with stellar acting and exquisite camera work, this is the movie for you.
The actress is very gifted. She goes from junkie street urchin to sophisticated woman about town far better than Fonda did. The scenes with her in training are far better than the derivative. There is a great supporting cast and they are very compelling.
The ending is more ambiguous than Point. That's fine as well. Point is a 3 star (at best) bit of derivative cotton candy. Le Femme Nikita is strongly conceived and carried out.
DVD Review: Great spy/babe flick
Summary: 5 Stars
Maybe spinoffs say a lot about a movie's success - in that case, a remake with Bridget Fonda and a few years' worth of TV serials clearly indicate success. It's easy enough to summarize the plot: a street punk, a vicious killer, turns into an agent for a shadowy government agency, and a vicious killer again. The wholy assassin-babe thing works very well with Ann Parillaud in the title role. Slender, willowy, and deadly - movies have been made with less as a premise.
If you want to get past the surface, "Nikita" offers at least a little more. One might consider the difference between a predator with a Saturday night special vs. one with a government-issued sniper rifle - it's not that much, despite more polished exterior. Nikita's fragility comes through repeatedly; not quite out of place, but not quite fitting, either. Then, if Nikita does become a new woman by the end, what renewed her? We also get to enjoy the slim figure in the little black dress, a delicious theme that recurs in Besson's later Angel-A.
Dark and stylish, it's plot shares points with The Bourne Ultimatum, and approaches that movie for entertainment value. Strongly recommended.
-- wiredweird
DVD Review: An Amazing, Great Foreign Film!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I probably would have given this movie 5 stars if the ending didn't suck!! It was absolutely terrible, didn't explain anything, and it was a real disappointment because the entire movie was so phenomenal until the very end.
Aside from the atrocious ending, I really enjoyed "Nikita." It had it's very humurous parts, but it was all unintentional humour, but it was very entertaining. The acting was very good, and the plot was very cool, but with quirky parts here and there.
Overall, this was a really great and entertaining movie that is very fun and is a great film. Except, the ending was terrible!!
Description of La Femme Nikita
French director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) broke the commercial taboo against female-driven action movies with this seminal, seductively slick film about a violent street punk (Anne Parillaud) trained to become a smooth, stylish assassin. Though it amounts, in the end, to little more than disposable pop, the film has a cohesiveness in style and tone--akin to the early James Bond films--that gives it a sense of integrity. Parillaud is compelling both as a wild child and chic-but-lethal pro (trained in good manners by none other than Jeanne Moreau). Tch?ky Karyo is also good as the cop mentor who develops feelings for her. --Tom KeoghGeneral DVDs
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