La Femme Nikita Critic Reviews

Surprisingly touching.Read the full review

It's like "The Terminator" as reimagined by the editors of French Vogue.Read the full review

Like the movies its modeled after, it's shallow, frequently silly. But there's something about the mix--maybe something about Parillaud as the screechy, dangerous Nikita--that may make the movie a powerful engine of wish-fulfillment. [12 Apr 1991, Calendar, p.F-10]Read the full review

The picture, for all its slickness and style, is empty, empty-headed and emotionally false… [It] has no more depth than "Pretty Woman" and occupies the same moral landscape. [5 Apr 1991, Daily Datebook, p.E11]Read the full review

The film, like Nikita herself, becomes more conventionally sleek and less interestingly bizarre as it moves along.Read the full review

Disappointing. [6 Mar 1991, Life, p.9D]Read the full review

[Parillaud] remains a totally uninteresting figment of Besson's blinkered movieland imagination, especially when she's in the company of Karyo and Anglade, who provide balance to her overacting.Read the full review

Parillaud is expressive but rather mundane. She's best at playing sullen, but there are so many French actresses who specialize in this particular talent -- the French have mastered the apathetic pout -- that she seems generic.Read the full review