Review of Léon: The Professional (1994) by Jayakrishnan R — 20 Dec 2014

86%.

Watched this on 20/12/14.

I perhaps expected a little too much from this movie considering the hype behind it. However, it turned out to be good considering stand out performances from Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman where Natalie is my personal favourite. It's hard to imagine her as a child, it may be because of her performance or because of the fact that I have seen way too many of her films in which she roused me and was a sex symbol for long. Disregarding all that, Leon the professional is a much action packed movie and it's brisk pacing is sufficient to make people sit through the 2 hour + duration. But still, the film kind of looses it's steam towards the end and I believe that the ending could have been more stylized.