With peta wilson, don francks, cindy dolenc, eugene robert glazer. The film stars anne parillaud as the title character, a teen who robs a pharmacy and murders a policeman. The music flows with the action, making it more entertaining. Eric serra is a wonderful composer who knows how to make great sounds. Peta wilson stars as nikita, a young woman framed for murder and. Archive dissolving bodies with acid general questions. Nikita, like many of the films of the cinema du look genre that emerged in the. She is sentenced to life in prison, where her captors fake. With peta wilson, roy dupuis, don francks, matthew ferguson. The television show turned out to be a much bigger success than anyone imagined, which meant the appearance of a. Nikita is, nevertheless, a victim of her circumstances, and like the rest of the characters on both sides, seems stuck in a very bad situation.
He not only disposes of the bodies in the bathtub with acid while theyre still. Despite its high production values, parents should know that due to the amount of sex and violence included in the film, this movie is inappropriate for children under seventeen. With michaels help, nikita survives section ones assassination attempt on her, but section one believes that she is dead. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is a lethal toxin. It is a surprisingly touching movie with the same kind of emotional arc as awakenings. Dissolving bodies with acid archive straight dope message board. Appleseed ex machina 2007 in the city of olympia you can see advertisements for leon and nikita. The film opens as young hoodlums break into a retail store in paris, gun down the owner and are gunned down themselves, except for nikita, who is captured by police. We get grisly gunshot wounds, a pencil in the hand and suggestive fun with acid on a live body. A disused tobacco factory in the paris suburb of pantin was used for the films interiors, the distressed aspect of the crumbling postwar structure adding to the. The film that made the career of luc besson the fifth element, the messenger starts off on a paris street as a quartet of jackedup junkies, including nikita. Still reeling from the tragedies resulting from the disclosure of her role as a section one internal investigator, nikita is paired with a new partner by the head of center and put back in the field, where she faces danger from all sides. Capitalism in the age of electronicswhat i will call, following.
In 1993 john badham remade it for american audiences as point of no return not quite so fantastic. Her career as an assassin goes well until a mission in an embassy goes awry. Here we have some great orchestral music and eletronic music as well. She is part woman, part child and part animal, all rolled into one. One ruthless scene shows nikitas accomplice, victor, pouring acid over his hapless victims after depositing them in a bathtub as nikita screams in horror at their. Anne parillaud, marc duret, patrick fontana, alain lathiere. Although they look like company names, both are famous movie killers, both created by luc besson. There are however stronger scenes of gore, including a character getting shot in the kneecap, a man getting stabbed in the hand with a pencil and a man having acid poured on him not actually seen, but the body is flailing around edit. While working as a waitress, nikita is kidnapped by the freedom league and taken to the terrorist groups headquarters. Nikita is a 1990 french film written and directed by luc besson.
Young, beautiful and condemned to death for a vicious crime she didnt commit, nikita is given a second chance to live as a secret government assassin, an elite operative for a clandestine. Mapping the contours of cyborg space in the conspiracy film. The sound of nikita features composer eric serra describing his process, and revealed. Luc besson, the original film maker, achieved a stunning synthesis of. The series was coproduced by jay firestone of fireworks entertainment and warner bros. Nikita s deception could be uncovered when she must retrain with jurgen, a. Foi coproduzida por jay firestone firestone entertainment e a warner bros. In addition to the artistry with which this story is told, this film has a very nihilistic sense of justice and notsosubtly points out the fact that state authorized murder is still murder. The movie even does well visually when nikita cleans up, tackling. The 1990 french action film about a criminalturnedgovernment assassin already. Transgressiveness and containment in luc bessons nikita. She freaks out when he starts killing guards and pouring acid on her target. Im not sure whether this bluray is enough of an upgrade to really justify a purchase, so if you have the sd version, i recommend renting this first.
Madeline poses as a psychotherapist to convince a south american political candidates devoted wifewho is also a section operative once married to operationsto kill the politico. Victor the cleaner le nettoyeur jean reno arrives to clean up the appartment. Nikita has a physical confrontation with michael when he infiltrates section one, and she ends up bound and gagged. Madeline intructs nikita to carry out operations order to kill the missing michael.
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