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Léon: The Professional (Theatrical and Extended Edition) [Blu-ray]
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Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman and Danny Aiello star in Leon: The Professional, a go-for-broke thriller about a professional assassin whose work becomes dangerously personal. Calling himself a "cleaner", the mysterious Leon (Reno) is New York's top hitman. When his next-door neighbors are murdered, Leon becomes the unwilling guardian of the family's sole survivor - 12-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), but Mathilda doesn't just want protection; she wants revenge. Training her in the deadly tricks of his trade, Leon helps her track the psychotic agent (Oldman) who murdered her family.
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Amazon.com
Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with this stylized thriller about an Italian 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
Leon The ProfessionalReview date: 2010-07-07 Rating: 10 out of 10Outstanding! 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!
ReviewsThe ProfessionalReview date: 2010-07-05 Rating: 10 out of 10Great movie. DVD was in perfect condition from the seller. I would purchase again from this dealer.Suh-weeeet.Review date: 2010-07-05 Rating: 10 out of 10This movie is friggin cool, and the "deluxe edition" ... well I don't really know yet.Leon the ProfessionalReview date: 2010-05-09 Rating: 10 out of 10I 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!Review date: 2010-04-21 Rating: 10 out of 1012 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.
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Danny Aiello
Peter Appel
Jean Reno
Gary Oldman
Natalie Portman
Creators:
Luc Besson (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony PicturesEAN: 0043396329188Binding: Blu-rayFormat: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Release date: 2009-11-17Universal product code (UPC): 043396329188Number of discs: 1Aspect ratio: 2.35:1Audience rating: R (Restricted)Running time: 132 minutesTheatrical release date: 1994Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Portuguese (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Language: Portuguese (Original Language)
Language: French (Dubbed)
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