In the context of this film it was indeed stupid of him to do that. Here, the scene makes much less sense than the one in the original. In Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, the French policeman did not go for his gun but just pleaded with her not to fire, but she shot him point blank all the same. Nikita, like Maggie, was just a drug-addicted, nihilistic street punk dragged along almost unconscious by her companions to the robbery in which she played practically no part. She just happened to pick up the gun dropped by one of her dead companions. She was cowering in a corner and the policeman saw her as non-threatening and lowered his guard. Nikita did not expect to get away but shot the policeman perhaps in revenge for her dead friends, or perhaps she was under the influence and couldn’t think clearly, or just because she didn’t care about her own life anymore. That showed her antagonism and hostility towards society in the extreme and made the scene much more powerful. As for Maggie, her motives were less clear though objectively there was very little chance she could have gotten away by taking him hostage especially in view of her own condition.
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creatorof2002
12 years ago
I still believe that had he not reached for the gun she would not have killed him ultimately. At that exact moment it was kill or be killed he would have shot her had she not fired. I genuinely believe she was NOT a cold blooded killer at any point she always killed to protect her own life, either self defense, because it was her job (and failure was basically a death sentence which almost happened to her near the end of the movie). She never ONCE killed in a situation where not doing so would not likely result in her death.
I think she would have either given herself up or tried to hold him hostage and ultimately given up. If she was truly purely evil or a psycopath or sociopath like that "cleaner" guy she would have been evil the whole time and never become a "good" person.
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