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Jean Reno
Natalie Portman
Gary Oldman
Danny Aiello
Peter Appel
Michael Badalucco

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A trained assassin is reluctant to take care of his Neighbor, whose parents are killed. The girl is 12 years old and he teaches her his assassination trade.

08/20/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Reno/Portman works magic in this film.

This might equally well have been entitled 'Mathilda' for there is no question it is Natalie Portman who steals the show from the merely brilliant Jean Reno (who should have got an Oscar for this.) Gary Oldman is as good being bad as ever, and Danny Aiello provides a classy supporting role.
The movie could be controversial in many respects but the sheer class and emotion lift it above any doubt. It reflects real life. Perhaps surprisingly, it is in Leon that emotion surfaces more easily, with Mathilda almost carrying the hardened hit-man as well as the film, through a series of punishing tests.
Mathilda is irresistible, cute, practical, tortured, sensual, and yet remains entirely innocent. As is the heartless, simple, cold-blooded murderer, Leon. This is artistic, entertaining, depressi...

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3.5/4 

04/24/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Leon professes at #36............

I really liked this movie...Jean Reno played the perfect milk loving, smooth and quiet assassin and Gary Oldman was equally as good as the psychotic drug crazed DEA agent gone bad...not to mention the limited but valuable screen time of veteran Danny Aiello and the introduction of Natalie Portman, who really made the whole thing work with a stunning performance in her first role. The action was great but it was definitely the acting chops of the three leads that made this movie so good. Those 3 couldn't have been casted better and it is why Leon comes in at #36......

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4/4 

03/17/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I am The Professional Reviewer!

Luc Besson follows up his explosive international success La Femme Nikita with another story about assassins and the resulting film is even better than his previous effort. From its super-stylish beginning—a directorial trademark—we know we are in for a full-on cinematic experience. From the word go we have stunning action set pieces combined with some genuinely touching and funny scenes as well as sharp dialogue but what makes this film so special is the on-screen chemistry of its two leads. Jean Reno as the soft-spoken—and somewhat naïve—but deadly French hit-man and Natalie Portman as the ballsy pre-teen determined to seek revenge on the psychotic cop who killed her family. There are plenty of humorous moments in this incredible film and some memorable one-liners including: "Somebody's...

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3.5/4