Leon - The Professional (Deluxe Edition)

Leon - The Professional (Deluxe Edition)
by Luc Besson

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Actor: Danny Aiello, Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Peter Appel
Director: Luc Besson
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Thierry Arbogast
Producer: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Producer: Bernard Grenet
Producer: Claude Besson
Producer: John Garland
Producer: Patrice Ledoux
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Leon - The Professional (Deluxe Edition)

Movie Review: So why was there never a sequel made?
Summary: 5 Stars

Apparently we Americans can take carnage but not sex with minors? I saw this movie when it was originally screened as The Professional and could tell that it had been cut but didn't realize that it was many major plot points.

This movie is director Besson's masterpiece as well as Natalie Portman's first and finest performance. Some of it is kinda over the top-Gary Oldman's performance, Leon's initial cleaning and the final confrontation between Leon and Stanfield.

This version adds backstory and a really funny sequence in which Leon teaches Matilde how to be a cleaner. It also shows that Matilde is mature beyond her years and that Leon is a child in man's body. I think it is very insightful when she compares sexual initation to learning to smoke-she is a 12 year old smoker!!

I always thought that this movie deserved a sequel in which a grown-up Matilde becomes a cleaner carrying on Leon's legacy, claims the inheritance Leon left her from that snake Tony and finally finds love and security (maybe a narcotics squad cop). Natalie is still young enough do it and Jean Reno can appear in a Topper like role looking out for her and guiding her, capiche?

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Summary of Leon - The Professional (Deluxe Edition)

Gary Oldman Jean Reno 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 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 133 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating:?NR UPC:?043396098589 Manufacturer No:?09858

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

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