Every aspect of the movie delivers to the audience and makes an impressive overall package. Luc Besson's movie Léon (The Professional) gives us an intense story which is maximized in potential by the casting of the movie done by Todd Thaler. Gripping story with well-crafted characters Reviewed by Methos-7 Vote: 10/10 If you like French Cinema or consider yourself a cinephile you must see the latter. There is nothing I can personally fault so I give this film 10/10, a score only two other somewhat different films hold in my IMDb list of 345 films - "The Wizard of Oz" and "La Cité des Enfants perdu". I have yet to hear of a person putting a bad word against this film. Besson's work appeals to the tastes of popular culture and may not please that of the elite - arguably a reason for the rejection of his work by many intellectual film journals. "The sumptuous and the ornate cohabit with the violent or the vulgar." Besson's use of excess is also extremely playful mixing violence with humour. Besson's characters lack psychological depth. Stylisation and excess are hallmarks of Besson's work. To me, Gary Oldman plays his part to the tee, said by some magazines to be the best screen bad guy - it is one of his best performances. This has to be one of Jean Reno's and by far Natalie Portman's best screen performance. Typical of Besson's style with fast action-shooting and violent characterisation. Then there is the action which is all the grace and style of Nikita. And so we have ascertained that the characters in Besson's films are, simply, great. Not sex, which is all the Americans, could see. What it to be understood about this film, and this is what infuriated Besson, is that the film is about pure love. The film was still panned by US critics as quasi-child pornography on general release. The American test audiences hated it, seeing it as perverse and paedophiliac. The original cut released for US audiences was felt, by Besson, had an "offending" scene cut which ruined later scenes. I always found that until obtaining the "Version Integral" there was a character hole in the plot. There is no clean difference (we may also include Le Dernier Combat for comparison.) The only difference is gender. Both the central protagonists attempt to come to terms with their dysfunctionality, to society, against a background of violence, which they both continue to act upon as the agent of someone else. The similarities, or parallels, between Nikita and Léon are undoubted.
Léon was Besson's first foray into international film production.
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An interview with Anne Parillaud, in the Evening Standard, 24.8.90, it was said that the message of Nikita is not one of violence but the idea is that people who are full of despair and missing love are not alone.
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