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Usually I bypass films with subtitles but the French do make some good films and this is one.However it is extremely violent and subtitled and a real "anti establishment"film to me,which means the audience for it is small.Still,it spawned a US remake and a silly TV series so for historical reasons,it's worth a view.Anne Parillaud plays Nikita,a real low life punk who's caught with a bunch of other bums raising hell and killing cops.However at her trial for killing a cop, a member of the French CIA types sees her and gives her a choice.Plot 8 row 30,( meaning death)or work for us.She becomes a trained killer and in a way she and that recruiter Tchéky Karyo as Bob,sort of also have feelings for each other after a rocky start to their relationship.The film is many films.A doomed love story as she falls for a normal guy Jean-Hugues Anglade as Marco.A anti establishment film as to "does the end justify the means"?A thriller and a redemption film of sorts.Released in 1990 and running 118 minutes,its almost the female version of the Bourne sage,but even more unforgiving and unscrupulios.No other film quite as nasty and titillating all at once.
Leave it to those wacky french.Trailer URL follows the pix.
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