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Whistle Stopper - La Femme Nikita
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière, Laura Chéron
Directed By: Luc Besson
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302731293
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302731291
Label: Vidmark / Trimark
Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Running Time: 115
Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
Theatrical Release Date: 1991-04
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Summary: So Much Better Than The Point of No Return
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Great spy/babe flick
Comment: 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
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Summary: An Amazing, Great Foreign Film!!
Comment: 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!!
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Summary: No Point of No Return
Comment: This movie is far superior to the American remake. Sure I'm American and like the remake, but it is not near the visceral impact as this original version made by the French. I also think Anne Parillaud is better suited to the role than Bridget Fonda. I liked the way Parillaud looks a mess and then becomes drop dead gorgeous. Better than the Fonda transition. Not to mention Parillaud does some cute comedic bits that endear her more. Luc Besson made one of his best with this movie. Although I don't speak French, it is better to watch subtitles than listen to terrible English dubbing. Fans of the Bourne series will probably enjoy it.
An attractive female addict is taken off the street and cleaned up to be an assassin for the French government. She is quite good at her job, but when she starts to question her orders she is considered a liability that must be removed. When a cleaner, played by Jean Reno, gets carried away with cleaning up a mission gone awry, there is no way she can continue working for the government. Excellent cast, action, music, and scenery. The DVD is decent quality. I recommend it. If you like this be sure to catch some of Luc Besson's other movies. I recommend "The Crimson Rivers", "Wasabe", and "Fifth Element". The DVD does not come with extras but it has good quality picture and sound.
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Summary: La Femme Nikita
Comment: Besson's flashy "Nikita" was a huge hit for the French director in 1990, inspiring several remakes and even a TV series. But those versions lacked an essential component of the original's success: the feral, leggy, crazy/cool/beautiful Parrilaud, Besson's then-wife. (He even landed the great Jeanne Moreau, who cameos as Nikita's femininity coach.) Combining elements of the Pygmalion story with vivid visuals, high-fashion costumes and sets, and the cold brutality of classic noir, Besson concocted a female-driven action formula that continues to influence movies today. For fun, fast-driving entertainment, "Nikita" fires on all cylinders.
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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). Tchéky Karyo is also good as the cop mentor who develops feelings for her. --Tom Keogh
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