this nikita too thinunlike the ` nikita ( a in and former ussr premier ) and and like it lead lady and la femme nikita be too thin to be a fully satisfy or thought provoking a it could have be . a write by luc besson and a play by anne parillaud and nikita be a whiney and drug addict psychopath who murder a police officer in cold blood and even though she have virtually no chance of escape . even during incarceration and nikita ruthlessly maim an interrogator . she be sentence to life with no possibility of parole for 30 year . caution represent spoiler ahead . when nikita find herself be summarily execute by lethal injection and she cry out for her mama . this cowardly behavior be find repugnant in the day of cagney and bogart . here and i suppose and it be suppose to arouse sympathy for nikita . it doesn not work . nikita awakes to find that her execution and burial have be stag and and her new mentor and bob ( tchéky karyo ) recruit her for work a a spy or assasin . bob give her one hour to choose represent either work for u or be execute for real . use a ruse and nikita attack bob and and take his weapon and use bob a a shield in an attempt to escape . when her plan be foil and nikita attempt suicide and but bob have leave the first chamber in his gun empty . reclaim his weapon and bob shoot nikita in the leg a a lesson . this be the first scene in the movie i actually enjoy . enter training and the cruel and unruly nikita physically injure one trainer and emotionally injure another . bob find out from nikita it be her twentieth birthday . bring nikita a cake and he tell her she have two week or she will never see 21. visit her ` feminity instructor ( jeanne moreau ) and nikita begin to learn to use her feminine gift . after finish her makeup and throughout which moreau say and ` you be go to be very late . nikita go to celebrate her twenty third birthday with bob . after three year and the only apparent change in nikita be that she be slightly calm ( ritalin . ) and have learn to brush her teeth and comb her hair and apply makeup ( your tax franc at work ) her birthday celebration outside the facility ( which she hasn not leave in three year ) and turn out to be an assassination in a public restaurant . this be the best action sequence in the movie ( and parillaud performs many of her own stunt ) . however and it seem pretty silly for an ` expert spy to leave a ` novice spy to commit this kind of mayhem in such a public place . it get bad . once nikita escape and return to the spy compound and make no attempt to hide her track and bob tell her that she be ` free and that the organization have set her up with a cover . right and she have just slaughter over a half dozen people in a public place and she be free to go settle down . what and be there no police force in france ( i guess nikita kill the last cop in the beginning ) . nikita then become domesticate and settle in with a sweet boyfriend and marco ( jean hugues anglade ) . thing be go swimmingly for nikita until the ` nasty organization ask her to do a few more job and each one more ridiculous than the rest . one ask u believe that nikita could shoot a woman with a high power rifle from her motel room and have no police come to investigate . the last would have u believe that nikita dress a a a male diplomat could ride through the gate of an embassy with a heavily arm hit man whom look nothing like the real ambassador driver without be question . it also ask u to believe a car can crash through a solid brick wall and keep on go . near the end of the movie and marco and whom have discover whom nikita be and debate with bob about the moral equivalency of nikita assassination of enemy of the state with her murder of the innocent cop . some have argue this movie make a strong statement against capital punishment . i disagree . nikita may no longer be a rebellious and but she be every bit a dangerous at the end of the movie a she be at the beginning . she never show remorse for the cop murder and and always seem only concern about save her own skin . her only sacrifice seem to be abandon the two men she love . will nikita again become the foul and ruthless and drug addict ` wild child of the street . the liberal conceit that ociety make her that way and that and love and financial security will save her fails to take into account the robert downey junior and o. j. simpson of the world . certainly external force do shape u and but they do not make u whom we be . that kind of wooly head thinking be why so many favor capital punishment . that be and in order to prevent nitwit social scientist from inflict the same murderer on u twice . besides and the organization would track down and kill nikita to protect itself from exposure . nikita would understand . after all and the organization would be play by her rule . this movie be wrong head from the start . luc besson trademark ` fly dolly open shot into strut drug addict criminal do not work here . drug addict and particularly those plan to rob a store would skulk and not strut . thin stuff and indeed .