La Femme Nikita [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Jean Bedin, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Mathieu Archer, Maurice Antoni, Michele AmielBrand: Sony
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-12-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Reviews of La Femme Nikita [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Proof that a remake is not always necessary
Summary: 5 Stars
Luc Besson should be fairly well known by now, even here in the USA, with his involvement in the recent From Paris with Love, The Transporter movies, and writing credits for The Fifth Element, District 13, and Kiss of the Dragon.
Here he is directing (back in 1990)arguably some of his best work. Those unfamiliar with him in the Directors chair should check out Le Grand Blue: The Big Blue (Director's Cut) which is sadly still not available here in Blu-Ray format and Léon: The Professional (Theatrical and Extended Edition) [Blu-ray] as well as the aforementioned Fifth Element.
In time honored fashion of course, this movie gained little exposure back in the 90's so a remake was deemed necessary, casting the always appealing Bridget Fonda in the lead role, and the movie was remade for US audiences, and renamed Point of No Return [Blu-ray]
Whether it was the fact that Nikita is in French, or some other reason, and although the remake was not a turkey by any means, with some more explosive hollywood style action, it remains tepid in comparison for the depth of drama that Nikita brings out amid the action.
Nikita, is a bummed out drug addict with no future, friends or family, a mendicant who embodies all that is bottom feeding trash. She is taken (or rather kidnapped) by a government agency, cleaned up and trained to be a cold blooded assassin.
Why? you may ask (as one reviewer did) well I would surmise that she wouldn't be missed by anyone, recognizable to anyone, and of course would becompletely expendable.
What follows is a gritty high speed drama, of the type Besson has become associated with. Brutal at times, and almost frenetic, but thoroughly absorbing and as good an action drama as that decade produced.
Tcheky Karyo is excellent as her hard nosed handler, and Jean Reno pops up as the "cleaner" a similar role to which he starred in 4 years later in the excellent Leon:The Professional (mentioned above). But the film belongs hands down to Anne Parillaud who sizzles on screen, sexy and smart, emotional charged, ruthless and yet inwardly scared and confused, a real powerhouse performance.
This is a great movie, some may find the 90's narrative a little dated but it's more than worth a watch.
The Blu-Ray transfer is clean, not exceptional, but still very good.
Description of La Femme Nikita [Blu-ray]
LA FEMME NIKITA - Blu-Ray MovieFrench 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). Tchéky Karyo is also good as the cop mentor who develops feelings for her. --Tom Keogh
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