nikita taylor be not a good girl . she a heroin addict who participate in rob the pharmacy . it end up badly and she the only survivor . she sentence for life for shoot a policeman . but one day she find out nikita no long exists and she have to work a an assassin . thing get more complicated when she fall in love with a cashier . nikita be an action thriller direct by luc besson . in 1993 john badham make an english version call point of no return with bridget fobda in the lead . in the french version anne parillaud do a great job a nikita . jean hugues anglade be terrific a her boyfriend marco . tchéky karyo be brilliant a bob . jeanne moreau be wonderful a amande . jean reno be fantastic a victor the cleaner . we all remember his outstanding performance also a a cleaner in leon ( 1994 ) and a luc besson masterpiece . the restaurant sequence look quite awesome . she have to make her first assassination on her birthday . and the job she do with victor and and he waste all those bullet on those men and get shot . i wish luc besson could come up with stuff like this some day again . nikita be a great representative of the action genre .