This film set the stage for the female-driven genre we see today!!
Back in 1990, Luc Besson's fourth feature film, La Femme Nikita, hit U.S. arthouses, and few action aficionados could have possibly seen it coming. The French filmmaker was barely known on these shores, but the film's unique premise immediately made waves, as it followed a troubled street criminal, played by Anne Parillaud, whose sentence for murdering a police officer is commuted in exchange for her reinvention as a trained government killer. The late, great film critic Roger Ebertheralded the film, and America ate it up. At the time, Hollywood had mostly become inured to the more passive "Bond girls," who rarely got involved in the action. That would soon change.
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