La Femme
This article is about the film entitled Nikita a. k. a. La Femme Nikita. For other uses, see Nikita (disambiguation). Beyond the lovely printed bias cut dress (I'm always looking for those on ebay), look at how the. Nikita (re-titled La Femme Nikita in some markets) is the title of a 1990 French movie written and directed by Luc Besson, and a Canadian television series of the same title, which was based upon the film.
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Nikita begins the film as a heroin addict who attempts to rob the chemists run by one of her fellow addicts. The heist turns into a firefight with the local police in which her friends are killed. She then kills one of the police in an apparent act of nihilism or vengeance. La Femme Fatale è Laura Ash, un'affascinante ladra che, dopo un furto di gioielli durante il Festival in video, il suo riflesso - la femme fatale Romijn-Stamos - sul vetro. She is tried and sentenced, then apparently executed. The execution is however a fake; she has been officially buried and listed as deceased, but in reality is now in the custody of the French equivalent of MI6. Here she is given the stark choice of training as a government assassin or being executed for real. After some resistance, she opts for the former, and eventually proves to be a talented operative (her induction mission, the elimination of foreign dignitaries in an expensive restaurant, is perhaps the best set-piece sequence of the film).