[8] After the big yawn of The Big Blue,
Besson goes back to his Subway roots with this thriller, which could
easily be titled Assault of the French Killer Bimbos on Smack for the
video market, tho' to be honest there's only one bimbo (Parillaud). Her death is faked by
the government, who train her as an assassin and then let her hang around
for months between hits. Very stylish, as you'd expect, very blue (in the
colour sense - the nipple count, at one, is the lowest in ages for a French
movie), a little overlong at 116 minutes and nicely violent with a warped
twist, as with the government's 'cleaner' who carries a case of sulphuric
acid around to help tidy up the corpses...
7/10
