This movie is few years old, but it's one of my all time favorite flicks. I caught it on cable 2day and almost 4got how much I loved this movie, I gotta go buy me a copy of this on DVD.

Storyline- a itlain hit man, takes in a orphan child, after her family was murder by some Drug Lord.



Scene from the movie

Loved the movie, but what was up with the pedophiliac overtones?

sinisterpentatonic said:

it was the only pic I could find

One of my favorite parts of that movie was when that dread picked up a copy of Burning Spear's (Marcus Garvey?) Album. I was like hell yeah!

I hated Gary Oldman (his character) in this film.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Lolita with a gun

This is a great film imho.

Did you know they are about to make a sequel with the grown up Natalie Portman reprising her role?

This movie was called "Leon" in Europe..it was called "The Professional" in the States?



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Lleena said:

Yeah, 'Leon' is a great movie. Was it really called 'The
Professional' in the states?

Sly said:

It looks like it was Sly! It's definitely the same movie judging by the still. I was just wondering why they renamed it. Anyhow it is a great movie.

Lleena said:

To cap it off, in Australia I think it was called "Leon: The Professional"

I got my DVD of the movie from the UK and it is just called "Leon".

VERY VERY GOOD MOVIE, ONE OF MY FAV'S :d

bkw said:

Correct. They renamed it here because we had a successful similarly titled TV show a decade or more earlier! Go figure!

I do love that movie

bkw said:

Oh! I only know it as Leon!

great movie, I love the plant...

great movie.


oh, and the title was changed because "The Professional" makes it sound like any generic shlock Hollywood puts out, so they probably assumed people would come to see it/rent it on that basis alone. plus "Leon" is a pretty stupid name for a movie.

can we also discuss...



it's a movie that you either love or hate...I absolutely love it..saw it 3 times in the theatre..bought the DVD years ago...lost it in a move...haven't bought it again..haven't seen it in years!!

FiveFootNine said:

i liked it a lot on the first viewing. i think it's a movie that's only great once, because the great thing about it is its shock factor.

AaronAlmighty said:

exactly..but when I saw it a 2nd and 3rd time, I noticed some brilliant little things that I hadn't seen the first times.

FiveFootNine said:

cool. i found it hard to sit through the second and third times. it's less "violence is fun" after that and more just disturbing, to me.