Nikita

Nikita is a young woman who takes part in a botched pharmacy robbery while high, and a policeman is shot dead. Sentenced to life in prison, she is instead declared dead and pressed into service by a shadowy government branch, which offers her a choice between training as a covert assassin and a lethal injection. She submits to years of hard instruction under the watchful Bob and emerges as a skilled operative living under a false identity as a nurse. When she falls for Marco, a man she meets in ordinary life, she begins to want out, but her handlers will not release her. Directed and written by Luc Besson, this was his third feature, following The Big Blue and preceding Atlantis.

Anne Parillaud plays the title role, with Tchéky Karyo as Bob, Jean-Hugues Anglade as Marco, and Jean Reno as the cleaner Victor. Jeanne Moreau appears as Armande. The film was produced by Patrice Ledoux for Gaumont with Italian partners, on a budget of about 6 million dollars, and returned roughly 5 million at the worldwide box office.

Audiences have rated it 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb across 81,000 votes and 7.1 out of 10 on TMDB from 2,220 votes. A critics' rating of 7.3 out of 10 from 47 reviews places it in line with those viewer scores.