Directed by Luc Besson, Le Femme Nikita tells the story of a drug addict who becomes an assassin for the French government. The movie opens with the robbery of a pharmacy by a group of junkies. Among the group is Nikita, a teenage delinquent and a drug addict. The pharmacy is owned by the one of the guys in the group father. Police come and a shootout between the junkies and the cops ensue. The Cops kills all the guys except for Nikita who shoots a cop. Nikita is arrested and sentenced to death. She is executed by injection only to wake up in a room that is painted in all white.
An agent, Bob, enters the cell and tells her that she is dead. He gives her an ultimatum of sorts to work for the government as an assassin or they will return her to the ground. She accepts and they train her. Over this time, Nikita and Bob develop a sort of father-daughter relationship as he falls for her.
Nikita eventually graduates after her she is put to test an kills a diplomat in a restaurant crowded with people and it sent out into the world to do tasks when called upon. She meets a guy who works at a supermarket and they fall in love but she never reveals to him her real job.
After a while, tasks start coming in for her to do. They go well for the most part. The best one I would say is when Nikita has to shoot a kill a man from a hotel room while her boyfriend talks to her from outside the door.
At the end of the film, Nikita is given an assignment to steal a very important document from an embassy and it goes well. During the escape, The Cleaner, played by the great Jean Reno, is killed. The film ends with Nikita taking off and leaving everyone.
The film seems to be influenced by the theme of right and wrong. In the film, Nikita does wrong several times such as her petty life of crime, drugs, and shooting the police officer because she needed her fix. On the other hand, The French government wasn’t in the right too as they pretty much forced her to become a murderer for their dirty deeds. Also, the film touched upon relationship issues. For instance, Nikita hides her real occupation and lies to her boyfriend to cover it up.
The film is very stylish and violent. The music in the film has a sort of techno vibe. The film plot was very engrossing as it keeps the audience wanting to know what is going to Nikita. Is she going to live? is she going to get killed? The acting in the film was very well down. Anne Parillaud, who played Nikita, did very well playing a lost soul who goes from a wacked-out druggie to a more refined and mature person at the end of the film. The editing is very fast paced and the cinematography is done pretty well from the blue tint and neon used in the pharmacy shootout in the beginning to showing the beauty of Venice, Italy. Overall, Le Femme Nikita is an action-
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