Le Femme Nikita is a film by one of France’s greatest film directors Luc Besson.The film is about a low life girl, Nikita, who heartlessly kills a police officer when robbing a store with her friends. She is caught and taken to jail with a death sentence. The audience thinks the is being killed by lethal injection, but we find out she was put to sleep and given a choice. Nikita can either take a job as an assassin for the government or she can fill the grave were her body is suppose to be.
Nikita takes the assassin job, but not happily. She goes through the training process and causes more trouble then actually learning anything. Bob, the person in charge of her process, is told that if she does not improve by the end of the month, she will be killed. Nikita successfully goes through the process and exceeds expectations. As a reward for her birthday, she is taken out for diner with Bob. Everything is nice until she receives her present. They are not celebrating her birthday, this will be her first hit and the present was a gun. She is kill a man in the room to complete her training. She unwillingly completes the job and is now free to live a “normal” life.
She tries to live a normal life meeting and dating a grocery boy. As she starts to enjoy the simplistic life, she gets a call for another assassin job. The job takes her first to a hotel; she simply has to take a bugged tea set to a room. The next job takes her to Italy, and her boyfriend is getting very suspicious of what she does. While arguing with him she has to take out a person with a sniper rifle with out anyone noticing. She starts to feel the pressure of living a double life and the consequences that come with it.
Back in France she has a long termed hit. She must work nights and figure out how to get certain files from her target. The plan the attack but the job goes bad. A Cleaner is called in to fix the mission. With the cleaners help she gets the files, but it does not go down easily. The cleaner is killed and the cops are after her. She goes home to Marco, but he figured out that she is an assassin. They have one final conversation together and she disappears never wanting to kill again. Bob visits Marco and they talk about her. Marco gives Bob the files he needed and a not from Nikita. Bob smiles and the movie ends.
The major theme in this movie is that a cold-blooded killer can learn to love humanity again. Nikita started out as a trouble child but as she grew older she learned to appreciate life. With love in her life she found a reason to live and to never kill again. By the end of the movie she could not heartlessly kill a person.
This film was just the beginning for Luc. His movie The Professional is one of my favorite movies and after watching Nikita, I see the make of a great director. The characters in the movie feel alive. He has a way with bringing a human charm to the most ruthless characters. Le Femme Nikita is a great movie and I would definitely watch this film again.
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