La Femme Nikita , 1990
Category: Action, Crime, Cult French Movies, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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
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I haven’t seen this one. Have you ever seen “La Grande Seduction”? It’s French-Canadian movie filmed in Northern Quebec. A small remote village is looking for a doctor but can’t find one. They send a couple of villagers to Montreal and find a doctor with a coke drug addiction and must try to persuade him to be their full-time doctor.
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I saw the French version of this movie first, and it is one of my all time favorites. I’m not big on violence or gore, but this movie is about complex characters and their complex lives. It’s very deep. The English language remake was a huge disappointment. All the subtlety was lost.