Femme Nikita
Begins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation. [3 1/2 stars out of four.]
La Femme Nikita
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In anticipation of American Ultra, check out an earlier film about a seemingly ordinary person thrust into the life of a super spy/assassin, Luc Besson's extremely entertaining and stylish 1990 action-thriller starring Anne Parillaud.
The serpentine plot begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is a lethal toxin. Instead of dying, however, the comes to in an all-white interrogation room, where French intelligence officer Bob (Tchéky Karyo), informs her that an alternate to execution exists: she can receive covert government training as an assassin.
The serpentine plot begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is a lethal toxin. Instead of dying, however, the comes to in an all-white interrogation room, where French intelligence officer Bob (Tchéky Karyo), informs her that an alternate to execution exists: she can receive covert government training as an assassin.
Runtime
117
Language
English
Director
Luc Besson
Cast
Anne Parillaud,
Jean-Hugues Anglade,
Tchéky Karyo,
Jeanne Moreau
Played at
NoHo 7 8.20.15 - 8.20.15
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