Vapid US remake of Nikita

Actually this movie was not bad, but it did not make it for a number of reasons. Everything was too loosely put together. The character relationships and development were weak. The script itself, well, some say it was barely changed from the Nikita one, and in that case, it is down to weak directing, as the actors in the film are all excellent actors. I like it even though it was lacking. We were supposed to feel for Bridget Fonda, but I felt nothing and had the movie been done better, I have no doubt I would have had some sort of interest in the main protagonist(s).

I love Nikita I think it's a great film and I think this version is good as well I don't know why so many people don't like it. I also think that the chemistry between Gabriel Byrne and Bridget fonda is better than the chemistry between the french actors who played Bob and Nikita. Also I liked the ending better in the American version because it was less confusing than the ending in Nikita.

I had to reply to this post even though it is 4 years old.

I have seen point of no return first as a child several times and i liked the movie very much as well as the music score (i realy don't understand what some people have against the music, i'll probably talk about that in another post). It was just a couple of years ago that i learned that it was a remake of the french original "Nikita".

Having a grat respect to europen cinematography i thought to my self that if I liked "Point of no return" so much, than "Nikita" must be in the least a brilliant movie. However, after watching "Nikita" i will not say i was dissapointed, but rather that it did not meet my expectations. It was a cold story with almost no music in it at all and the only character that raised my interest was the cleaner, portraied by Jean Reno.

So to conclude this reply to the orriginal post: I wathced the original "NIkita" and my opinion is, however ubeleivable as it may seem, that the remake is a far better movie than the original is.

That's all.

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