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The Professional
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7736 in DVD
- Released on: 1998-02-24
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English, Spanish
- Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
- Dubbed in: French
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 110 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with this stylized thriller about a French hit man (Jean Reno) who takes in an American girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by a corrupt killer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a little more unhinged than he should be, but there is something genuinely irresistible about the story line and the relationship between Reno and Portman. Rather than cave in to the cookie-cutter look and feel of American action pictures, Besson brings a bit of his glossy style from French hits La Femme Nikita and Subway to the production, and the results are refreshing even if the bullets and explosions are awfully familiar. --Tom Keogh
From The New Yorker
The first American movie from Luc Besson, and it's even more absurd than his French ones. Léon (Jean Reno), a mob hit man living alone in Manhattan, befriends a precocious young girl (Natalie Portman), whose family has been wiped out by a twisted D.E.A. official (Gary Oldman) eager to finish what he started. The least objectionable thing about the movie is the violence-it's quick and funny. The most objectionable thing is Gary Oldman's performance, baroque in its awfulness. Almost as bad is the director's attempt to construct a visual style-and, for that matter, characters-by piling one mannerism on top of another. Thus Léon is presented as a lonely, sleepless, plant-tending, milk-drinking illiterate; what happened to the human being? For all his yearning to be hip, Besson is wedded to good taste. The love story between man and girl, which could have propelled the film toward outrage, stays mawkish and prim. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Customer Reviews
my favorite movie of all time
i do not know why but this movie has been my favorite since the first time i watched it. i was 10, i just do not get bored of it. i probably watched it over 20 times. I love Jean Reno and Natalie Portman, i would watch any movie either of them is in. I love V for Vendetta as well but no matter how many movies i watched i never could say that this movie is better than Leon - The Professional.
If you havent seen it you should!!!!!!!!!!!
the professional
I still don't know why I love this movie so much. I am by nature a very calm sort of peaceful person, never in a million years I would have wasted money in renting a violent movie let alone buying it! But this movie really goes beyond violence. In fact, the violence aspect is only a facade for a most intrinsic and pure message: Love germinate in all enviroment no matter how harsh or hostile the environment is. And what's more it's cleverly done so by the outstanding acting of Portman, Reno and Oldman.
What a Deep Action Film!!!!
This film has drama, great plot and intense action. If you want a film that will keep in suspense than this film is for you.
