Girl Got Skills

Everyone loves a pretty girl who kills people for a living, right?

New York Guy and I watched this one last night and we both liked.



Nikita is a homeless social misfit who wanders the streets doing drugs and robbing people. In the course of a robbery she kills someone, a cop. French police catch her and give her the "choice" of becoming their clandestine agent of death or going to prison. She chooses the former. It was quite a physical transformation for the lead from scrappy street urchin to polished-up assassin.

What I liked about this one was the raw, impulsive, wild animal characteristics Anne Parillaud brought to her role. Then, after she meets a man she truly loves, you begin to see her look at herself in a new way, an irreconcilable way - part passionate lover, part detached killer. She knows one part of her must go, but which one will it be?

Definitely watch it in French with English subs. I tried the English audio track but it sucked.

8.0/10
La Femme Nikita

I know they made a series out of this film. Have you seen it and do you have an opinion?