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Her assassin's career continues well, until an embassy document-theft goes awry, requiring the ruthless participation of 'Victor: The Cleaner' ([[Jean Reno]]) in destroying the mission's evidence and all corpses. The Cleaner is wounded and dies; Nikita abandons the Agency, the city of Paris, and her supermarket cashier boyfriend. |
Her assassin's career continues well, until an embassy document-theft goes awry, requiring the ruthless participation of 'Victor: The Cleaner' ([[Jean Reno]]) in destroying the mission's evidence and all corpses. The Cleaner is wounded and dies; Nikita abandons the Agency, the city of Paris, and her supermarket cashier boyfriend. |
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== Reception == |
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''Nikita'' received relatively poor reviews by critics both in France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avoir-alire.com/article.php3?id_article=9054|title=Luc Besson, le mal aimé, aVoir-aLire|accessdate=2009-02-06}}</ref> and abroad. On [[Metacritic]], the overall rating by the critics is 56%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/lafemmenikita?q=nikita|title=La Femme Nikita, on Metacritics|accessdate=2009-02-06}}</ref> |
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However, a number of critics, including [[Gene Siskel]] and [[Roger Ebert]], positively reviewed the film.<ref name="siskelebertvid">{{cite web |url=http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=6&subsec=La+Femme+Nikita |title=The Balcony Archive: La Femme Nikita |accessdate=2007-12-07 |format=flash video |work=Ebert & Roeper}}</ref><ref name="ebert91">{{cite web |title=Reviews: La Femme Nikita |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=1991-04-03 |work=rogerebert.com |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910403/REVIEWS/104030301/1023 |accessdate=2007-12-07}}</ref> |
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== Remake == |
== Remake == |
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| Directed by | Luc Besson |
| Written by | Luc Besson |
| Produced by | Patrice Ledoux (uncredited) |
| Starring | Anne Parillaud Jean-Hugues Anglade Tchéky Karyo |
| Music by | Éric Serra |
| Distributed by | Gaumont |
Release date | February 21, 1990 (France) |
Running time | 115 min. |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $5,017,971 (domestic)[1] |
Nikita is a 1990 French action film written and directed by Luc Besson, released in the U.S. as La Femme Nikita.[1][2][3] The film is about a young criminal who is recruited to work for French intelligence. A television show was later based on the film.
Plot
Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is a teenage girl who participates in the robbing of pharmacy of the parents of a fellow junkie. The robbery goes awry, degenerating into a gunfight with local police during which her cohorts are killed. Suffering severe withdrawal symptoms, she shoots a policeman. Nikita is arrested, tried, convicted of murder, and imprisoned for life, with parole considered after thirty years.
In prison, she is drugged to simulate a death sentence; she awakens in a nondescript room. A well-dressed, hard man (Tchéky Karyo) enters and reveals that, although officially dead and buried after suicide by overdose, she is in custody of the DGSE, the French intelligence agency. She is given a choice: work as a DGSE assassin or "row 8, plot 30" (location of her fake grave) or buried for real (the English-dubbed soundtrack gives the gravesite as "Aisle 7, number 30"). After some resistance, she chooses the former and proves to be a talented killer. One of her trainers, Amande (Jeanne Moreau), transforms her from a degenerate drug addict to a femme fatale; Amande was also rescued and recruited by the DGSE.
Her initiation mission, killing a diplomat in a crowded restaurant and escaping back to the Centre, is the film's highlight; she is graduated and begins life as a sleeper agent in Paris with her boyfriend (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a man she meets in a supermarket and who knows nothing of her real profession.
Her assassin's career continues well, until an embassy document-theft goes awry, requiring the ruthless participation of 'Victor: The Cleaner' (Jean Reno) in destroying the mission's evidence and all corpses. The Cleaner is wounded and dies; Nikita abandons the Agency, the city of Paris, and her supermarket cashier boyfriend.
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Remake
In 1993, Warner Bros. remade Nikita in English as Point of No Return (The Assassin), directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. Nikita also inspired the 1991 Hong Kong action film Black Cat, which closely follows the original film’s storyline.
TV series
A TV series based on the film, titled La Femme Nikita, was created in 1997. It was produced in Canada by Warner Bros. and Fireworks Entertainment. The series ran for five seasons on USA Network, and generated a sizeable cult following of its own. It was created by Joel Surnow, who later co-created 24 with fellow La Femme Nikita executive consultant Robert Cochran. It starred Peta Wilson, as Nikita, and Roy Dupuis.
In 2010, the CW network picked up a new series Nikita, with Maggie Q as a Nikita who has gone rogue.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lafemmenikita.htm
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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External links
- La Femme Nikita at AllMovie
- La Femme Nikita at IMDb
- La Femme Nikita at Box Office Mojo
- La Femme Nikita at Rotten Tomatoes
