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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>I watched:

>La Femme Nikita (4K disc)  1990 action movie written and directed by Luc 
>Besson.  Anne Parillaud stars as Nikita, a junkie who reaches a point of 
>no return in her criminal life after she murders a cop during a robbery. 
>  The French government then fakes her death and retrains her as an 
>assassin, as well as how to behave more ladylike.  For her first 
>assignment they send her into a restaurant to assassinate someone, but 
>intentionally sabotage the hit to see how she reacts to the situation. 
> From there she falls in love while working as a highly trained 
>government assassin and struggles to live her new life with her new 
>love.  Jean Reno costars as a "cleaner."

>Laon: The Professional (4K disc) 1994 action movie written and directed 
>by Luc Besson. . . . 

>Colombiana (blu-ray) 2011 action movie written by Luc Besson and 
>starring Zoe Saldana as a woman who when she was a young girl saw her 
>entire family murdered in front of her by a drug cartel.  She then gets 
>her uncle to train her to become a killer.  Since her uncle is a killer 
>himself, it's not much of a hard ask and he agrees without much 
>persuasion.  Although he does convince her to also go to school since 
>she's a little girl.  Flashforward to present day and Zoe is a 
>professional hit woman out for revenge.  If I didn't know any better, 
>I'd swear Luc wrote this to be a sequel to Léon: The Professional, with 
>Zoe essentially playing a grown-up Natalie Portman's character.  Anyway, 
>it's a very solid revenge action flick with Zoe laying waste to anyone 
>who gets in her way as she's out for revenge against the cartel who 
>murdered her parents all those years ago.

>Anna (4K disc)  2019 action movie written and directed by Luc Besson. 
>Sasha Luss (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) stars as a 
>junkie who reaches a point of no return in her criminal life after 
>people die during a robbery.  The Russian government then retrains her 
>as an assassin, as well as how to behave more ladylike.  For her first 
>assignment they send her into a restaurant to assassinate someone, but 
>intentionally sabotage the hit to see how reacts to the situation.  From 
>there she falls in love while working as a highly trained government 
>assassin and struggles to live her new life with her new love.  I could 
>have sworn I once saw a different movie written and directed by Luc 
>Besson with a similar plot, but I'm sure he wouldn't recycle his own 
>ideas over and over again.  Anyway, as movies written and directed by 
>Luc Besson about a junkie the government recruits and retrains to be an 
>assassin go, this is a pretty good one.

>How many of the movies directed by Luc Besson in my collection should I 
>watch this week?

Arthur, I don't see how you can tell the difference among La Femme
Nikita remakes and Fifth Element remakes. Luc Besson is stuck in a rut.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74BzSTQCl_c

If you can stand more, sure.