Nikita
La Femme Nikita (France-Italy)
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Anne Parillaud
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Tcheky Karyo
Jeanne Moreau
Jean Reno
Jean Bouise
Anne Parillaud is Nikita, a punk drug fiend who survives a police assault when her mad-dog band burgles a neighborhood pharmacy. Sentenced to life imprisonment for having cold-bloodedly executed one of the cops, Parillaud is drugged and wakes up in a cell where she is offered a second chance by an intelligence officer (Tcheky Karyo) in charge of her training.
Parillaud seems resigned to her fate until she meets an easygoing, affectionate supermarket cashier (Jean-Hugues Anglade) whom she picks up, romances and shacks up with. The idyll is complicated by the facade she must maintain and the dangerous periodic assignments.
Parillaud (aka Mme Besson) does her frenetic best to make Nikita something resembling a human being. But she remains a totally uninteresting figment of Besson's blinkered movieland imagination, especially when she's in the company of Karyo and Anglade, who provide balance to her overacting.
Jeanne Moreau provides a touch of class in a small role as over-the-hill agent who tutors Parillaud in feminine graces. Jean Reno, a Besson faithful, plays a killer with stone-faced parodic panache.
(Color) Widescreen. Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1990. Running time: 115 MIN.
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