Nikita is young and attractive, but has already gone to the bad. During a hold up of a pharmacy (drug store) with her drug-crazed criminal gang, she deliberately kills a policeman, coldly shooting him in the face.
She is condemned to prison for life, but the French secret services, looking for cold blooded killers, have identified the potential in her. They offer her an alternative future. If she proves herself, she could become a secret agent herself. She accepts and starts a hard career.
Director Luc Besson manages to keep a high level of energy and our interest – from the opening scene – a violent drugstore shootout until the very last moment. A high adrenaline anti-heroine thriller.
IMDB Rating : 7.5 /10
Gérard Depardieu born in 1948 in the provincial French town of Chateauroux, the son of a metal-sheet worker. He was a great adventurer in his childhood and had a troubled life, left the school at 12 and run away from home. Young and wanderer in the past, Gérard Depardieu started his excellent acting career at a small theatre. After minor roles in cinema, his big break came in 1973 when Bernard Blier offered him a lead role in Les Valseuses. That film established a new type of hero in the French cinema and the actor’s popularity grew enormously.
