La Femme Nikita
Summary:
The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) 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... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Anne Parillaud - (Nikita)
Jean-Hugues Anglade - (Marco)
Tchéky Karyo - (Bob)
Jeanne Moreau - (Amande)
Jean Reno - (Victor the Cleaner)
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Review:
Nikita (renamed "La Femme Nikita" for the U.S.) is writer/director Luc Besson's rhythmic, ultra-stylish, and gleefully ridiculous 1990 hit movie. A mixture of -Pygmalion, Diva, and one of John Woo's choreographed action pictures, the film was one of a subgenre of action pictures to emerge in the 1990s, characterized by tongue-in... Continue >>
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