Léon: The Professional

November. 18,1994      R
Rating:
8.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

Jean Reno as  Léon Montana
Natalie Portman as  Mathilda Lando
Gary Oldman as  Norman Stansfield
Danny Aiello as  Tony
Peter Appel as  Malky
Michael Badalucco as  Mathilda's Father
Ellen Greene as  Mathilda's Mother
Elizabeth Regen as  Mathilda's Sister
Carl J. Matusovich as  Mathilda's Brother
Eric Challier as  Bodyguard Chief

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Reviews

Hellen
1994/11/18

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Matialth
1994/11/19

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Supelice
1994/11/20

Dreadfully Boring

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Beystiman
1994/11/21

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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benkitching13
1994/11/22

Leon is Luc Besson's profoundly acclaimed thriller revolving around the unusual relationship between veteran hitman Leon (Reno) and his unconventional apprentice Mathilda (Portman). This unorthodox relationship creates an abundance of emotionally intense scenes throughout the film, notably the excellent finale. Reno is expertly cast as hollow, emotionally stricken hitman Leon, whilst Portman succeeds as vengeful youth Mathilda. However, Oldman delivers the most enthralling performance as sadistic, relentless DEA agent Stansfield. Leon is also propelled by wonderful cinematography and music decisions.

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saeed-tmr
1994/11/23

It's great movie for ever and I love it from beginning to end

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NikkoFranco
1994/11/24

In retrospect, I am happy to say that I am one of those who welcomes technology but I am not a slave to it. I can only wish for the younger generation to have been able to enjoy like we did until FB came coupled with the selfie sticks. The movie watching generation of now are quite limited in what they see, surprisingly not because there were not too many films but on the contrary you have zillions of things to watch out of boredom and everyone can be a superstar in YouTube. Lamentably, they are not accustomed to films like this. The duo of a battered child and a hired gun is action filled, yet we laugh with them and cry with them. Natalie Portman as the young , slightly irritating Mathilda is gifted with talent. Jean Reno as the distant yet fatherly figure of a pro killer is captivating in his role. They and the plant will entertain you ( like it did for us ) .

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Red-Barracuda
1994/11/25

When her family are slaughtered by a corrupt DEA officer and his men, a 12 year old girl takes refuge in a neighbour's apartment. A neighbour who it turns out is a professional hitman. She soon convinces him to train her to be his protégée.This was French director Luc Besson's first American movie. It is a follow up of sorts to his earlier chic action-thriller Nikita (1990), with Jean Reno essentially reprising his role of a cleaner (professional assassin), although in this one he is playing a different actually character. Like all Besson's movies there is considerable style brought to the table with the action sequences once again particularly well-delivered. But perhaps the true revelation of the movie is Natalie Portman who puts in an extremely strong performance for such a young actress, full of charisma, humour and emotional depth. She plays off well against Reno, who is also impressive. Gary Oldman, on the other hand, is pretty grating and annoying mostly as the main villain, a character who is cartoonish and somewhat ridiculous overall.While I do find this film good quality for the most part, with great action sequences and some interesting characterisations, I have to express serious reservations about the director's cut, where Portman's young character is constantly trying to get Reno to sleep with her. Its majorly uncomfortable stuff and really entirely unnecessary. And while Léon does spurn her advances, it's never really very clear that he rejects her for entirely the right reasons. Seemingly in the original script, the characters do actually end up sleeping together, which we can only be grateful never actually made the final cut but it does make you wonder what Besson was thinking with all this questionable stuff. My advice would be to avoid the director's cut and watch this one in the trimmed version, which removes all this contentious material.

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