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Léon: The Professional (Theatrical and Extended Edition) [Blu-ray]
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| | Customer Reviews: Leon The Professional (07 July 2010)Outstanding! Crisp, clear, great sound. Storyline is pure Besson, Portman, Oldman and Reno are a pleasure to watch. Couple that with first-rate portrayals by the secondary characters, and this film rates in my top ten! The Professional (05 July 2010)Great movie. DVD was in perfect condition from the seller. I would purchase again from this dealer. Suh-weeeet. (05 July 2010)This movie is friggin cool, and the "deluxe edition" ... well I don't really know yet. Leon the Professional (09 May 2010)I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The ending was a real tear-jerker. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone. Reno and Portman: mesmerizing and sublime! (21 April 2010)12 year old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), girlishly infatuated with an everyday transplanted Frenchman and lone-man neighbor, Leon (Jean Reno), soon must rely upon this strange man for her very survival. When her family is brutally murdered by a crooked DEA agent (an over the top but delicious Gary Oldman), this feisty girl is about to become a contender in avenging her family's deaths. As the best 'cleaner', aka hitman, in New York City, Leon reluctantly agrees to train this girl-child despite his reservations and awareness that emotionally attatching himself with her ultimatley weakens him. But something about Mathilda's resilience and tenacity, as much as her constant declaration of being in love with him, catches Leon off guard, and he becomes as intrigued by her as Mathilda has always been of him. Now, most people might make a face at an older man's unusual interest in a 12 year old (a la, Nabokov's Lolita and Rice's Belinda), but the superb acting by both Reno and Portman, as well as the intelligent, thoughtful and subtle interplay between the two and the always careful distance of going too far, removes the ick factor to something that's sweet and even endearing. Luc Besson's (La Femme Nikita; Fifth Element; Transporter trilogy; Taken) vision and intent of the movie, the editing, dialogue, the on-set locations of NYC and no special effects or overburdened action scenes is what helps to give this movie its cult classic place in movie-dom. What makes this movie so much more than what most movies are these days, is the focus on the two main characters with a well-developed and smoothly executed story-line and excellent, full-bodied and rich character development. Some found it difficult to digest the idea of a 12 year old accruing such an easy ability to kill and so determined on one objective, but it was entirely believable for me and within that realm of possibility. The story never lags and there no plot holes that leave you wondering, just the sad romance of two disparate individuals pulled together. Mathilda's evolution and growth in such a short film carries half this movie with the other half by Reno's careful play of a man who kills for a living but who, in many ways, is as ignorant and child-like as the girl he is protecting, and soon begins to love (though not sexually on his part). I never tire of this movie, which has been a fave since I was in high school, and there are so many scenes between Portman and Reno that could been too much and cringe-worthy but instead, how they are written and acted end up emphasizing the very things that makes us human, the good, the bad and the very ugly, but most importantly, the things that make us lonely, the things that don't matter and the people do matter, and the simplest of acts that gives us hope. |
