Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 02/21/1990(France),
Release Date: 12/02/2008
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
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 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. She accepts the bid, is rigorously trained, and later returns to society as a seemingly normal and gentle civilian, but falls in love with a drugstore employee while she's waiting for that first government assignment. The paradoxical concept of a young woman blossoming socially while carrying out cold-blooded murders was downplayed when
La Femme Nikita was remade in America as the silly and disappointing
Point of No Return, directed by
John Badham with
Bridget Fonda in the lead. A far less sociopathic TV-series version of
La Femme Nikita surfaced on the
USA cable network in early 1997.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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