Movies
Point of No Return
Yet another conversion from French to English, francs to dollars. Insofar as Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita (now she's la femme Nina: after Nina Simone, her favorite chanteuse) was already immersed in the Hollywood mind-set, little revision was needed. And little improvement is noted (quite the opposite at the end). If anything, the change in locale from foreign to front yard cuts off any small allowance for the unswallowable: the reigning intelligence agency recruits a junkie murderer as its ace assassin, and then when she's honed and hardened she falls girlishly in love with a Regular Joe. Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Keitel; directed by John Badham. 1993.
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MPAA Rating: R