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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-27 (Friday) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:06:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: <vkpemq$ebvv$3@dont-email.me> References: <vkp1ol$bpis$1@dont-email.me> <vkp40n$c2cr$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:06:19 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fc4b572797fd1d34b3a9edcf9bf38a58"; logging-data="471039"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18uv/HZLfD5V746aeAD1ad59t8DKeZUxAs=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:QN4HbP4mTXXksGxBWTewlU8Y6No= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3950 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.