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Mathilda started her life as a younger teenager with an abusive father and a negligent mother, they meet their waterloo and got murdered by crooked DEA agent Stansfield, she has to survive under hired Leon; a hitman for mobster Tony, learn his ways and avenge her parents.
6 July 1978, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
October1986
8 October 1949
9 June 1981, Jerusalem, Israel
20 June 1933, New York City, New York, USA
27 March 1925, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 March 1954, Jacksonville, Texas, USA
11 September 1959, Monticello, New York, USA
2 July 1961, Paris, France
November 17, 2015
Leon: The Professional is a wonderful character study, enriched by outstanding performances, thrilling action, and a well-rounded script that gives the film an intriguing amount of depth.
June 04, 2014
The sheer craziness and excessiveness of the movie -- no crazier, perhaps, than many of the American action movies it copies -- never finds a center of gravity.
June 04, 2014
The Professional is strictly amateur-hour.
June 04, 2014
Leave it to french writer-director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita) to put a kinky twist on Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks.
June 04, 2014
Like Quentin Tarantino, Besson has a singular style and directorial sensibility that keeps you watching.
June 04, 2014
No matter what uncomfortable undercurrents the film gives rise to, Besson's skill with action is inventive and creative (and of course over the top).
June 04, 2014
The Professional is intriguing, but misses the mark as a potential cult favorite.
October 24, 2014
Luc Besson's original cut feels more like a journey than just a joy-buzzer jolt of action, and the deeper, braver, darker story he set out to tell - a fractured and fractious fairy tale. When people rave about "The Professional," they mean "Léon."
November 14, 2015
A favorite of IMDb fanboys and reportedly of pedophiles as well, Leon: The Professional is noteworthy as marking French helmer Luc Besson's first American production as well as showcasing the film debut of a then-13-year-old Natalie Portman.
June 04, 2014
Funny, tragic, brilliant and unmissable.
June 04, 2014
Ultimately, like La Femme Nikita, there may be less here than meets the eye. But what does meet the eye is pretty darn thrilling.
June 04, 2014
The most objectionable thing is Gary Oldman's performance, baroque in its awfulness. Almost as bad is the director's attempt to construct a visual style -- and, for that matter, characters -- by piling one mannerism on top of another.
