Country: FR/US/CAN/RUS/SERB/GUAD
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy
Synopsis:
A Russian pothead is recruited by the KGB to be trained as an assassin, and her cover is to be a top flight model in Paris. The CIA has its own reasons to use her, however.
Review:
Besson joins De Mille, Hitchcock and Rodriguez in remaking his own film (Nikita), and this is all very familiar stuff anyway. (One thinks of Salt and Atomic Blonde, not to mention his own Leon, Angel-a and Lucy.) Of course it is slickly done and unbelievable in its two set pieces, and Besson spices his dish up with a labyrinthine achronological structure (Three Months Earlier, etc.) that defies apprehension. So far so yawn-inducing, but that is to ignore the diverting turns from Mirren and Murphy as rival operators, and Besson's still head-turning flair for visuals.
Country: FR/US/CAN/RUS/SERB/GUAD
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy
Synopsis:
A Russian pothead is recruited by the KGB to be trained as an assassin, and her cover is to be a top flight model in Paris. The CIA has its own reasons to use her, however.
Review:
Besson joins De Mille, Hitchcock and Rodriguez in remaking his own film (Nikita), and this is all very familiar stuff anyway. (One thinks of Salt and Atomic Blonde, not to mention his own Leon, Angel-a and Lucy.) Of course it is slickly done and unbelievable in its two set pieces, and Besson spices his dish up with a labyrinthine achronological structure (Three Months Earlier, etc.) that defies apprehension. So far so yawn-inducing, but that is to ignore the diverting turns from Mirren and Murphy as rival operators, and Besson's still head-turning flair for visuals.
