Although he’s made some decent films since this, I don’t think he has been able to live up to the promise he showed here. LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL is the kind of film I wanted Luc Besson to keep making. Although Besson took the audience on an enjoyable ride, he never let the audience forget that real people were involved and victimized along the way. Mathilda’s presence in this dark, evil world gave more meaning to Leon’s work because it wasn’t just stylized violence without purpose. Luc Besson inserted his own flare with LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, but it’s the context of the violence that made his a little different from the other directors. In the mid 90’s, directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Guy Ritchie, John Woo and others were making names for themselves by directing fast paced, exciting action sequences. When you add in the villainous performance from Gary Oldman, every performance in the film clicks. Together, they play off each other perfectly and their unusual friendship is captivating. Jean Reno has been pigeon holed into villain roles, but here he portrays Leon as strong and violent, yet somehow vulnerable when it comes to helping a little girl in need. Thanks to an incredible performance from a young Natalie Portman (her first feature film role) we instantly feel sorrow for Mathilda. I’m always impressed when a film manages to explore the intricacies of an asexual relationship successfully and LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL does it almost perfectly. There are many things to love about LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, but the film succeeds by focusing on the relationship between Leon and Mathilda. Once the two team up, director Luc Besson takes the audience on an emotional, funny, sad and exciting journey as Mathilda seeks revenge and Leon wrestles with the moral mine field he finds himself in. Mathilda’s entire family had just been murdered thanks to her father’s criminal dealings and her sorrow turns to anger when she learns what Leon does for a living. Jean Reno delivers his career defining performance as Leon, a reclusive hitman that reluctantly begins to look after Mathilda.
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But LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL doesn’t belong in those conversations and even though there’s a few great action scenes, the movie is so much more. Over the last two decades, we’ve become so inundated with movies about hitmen that they’ve become boring and stale, usually involving the same basic plot outline.
Released over 23 years ago, I sometimes forget that LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL is technically a hitman movie.
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