Léon: The Professional

1994 "If you want the job done right, hire a professional."
8.5| 1h51m| R| en| More Info
Released: 18 November 1994 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website:
Info

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

Genre

Drama, Action, Crime

Watch Online

Léon: The Professional (1994) is now streaming with subscription on Prime Video

Director

Luc Besson

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

AD
AD

Watch Free for 30 Days

Stream on any device, 30-day free trial
Watch Now
Léon: The Professional Videos and Images
View All
  • Top Credited Cast
  • |
  • Crew

Léon: The Professional Audience Reviews

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
info-92276 It is one of the best movies I've seen in its genre. The performances of Jean Renó, Gary Oldmn and Nathaly Portman are outstanding. I recommend it a lot. Excellent Management, history and production work.
benkitching13 Leon is Luc Besson's profoundly acclaimed thriller revolving around the unusual relationship between veteran hitman Leon (Reno) and his unconventional apprentice Mathilda (Portman). This unorthodox relationship creates an abundance of emotionally intense scenes throughout the film, notably the excellent finale. Reno is expertly cast as hollow, emotionally stricken hitman Leon, whilst Portman succeeds as vengeful youth Mathilda. However, Oldman delivers the most enthralling performance as sadistic, relentless DEA agent Stansfield. Leon is also propelled by wonderful cinematography and music decisions.
Kmb_the_Nepali_reviewer It is one of the most overrated movies of all times. I don't mean it's bad, but it's not as great as people claim it to be. It is a good and a little different type of crime drama. But, speaking of 90s crime dramas and mob films, "Goodfellas", "Pulp Fiction", "The Usual Suspects", "Se7en", "Reservoir Dogs", etc are much better than this movie, at least for me. But still a lot better majority of crime movies today. The main theme - the relationship between Leon and Mathilda - mostly satisfying and very well written and directed. That is something I really loved. But at the same time, a part of that relationship is quite a mixed bag for me. (SPOILERS) Mathilda falls in love with Leon and asks him for intimacy. As much as I admire Besson's decision, it feels unusually weird. Plus, Natalie Portman was just around 12 or 13 years old, and there were some perverted shots of her in the movie that I didn't really want to see. The Leon-Mathilda plotline, except for this part, was quite good. And which means almost more than a half of the movie was good. Mathilda becoming a hitman plotline - the motivation felt a little forced to me, her training sessions were finely entertaining but ..... where and how did it really end? More than becoming a real hitman (probably she did in the montage sequence) we only get to see her do some crazy teenager stuffs. And, one of my biggest issues - Mathilda wanting a revenge on Stan plotline. It would have been a better movie if this one and the first plotline I mentioned were equally a major part of the movie. But, the movie deviates from this a lot. We get reminded about this part when Gary Oldman shows up. This was one of the main parts of the plot, but didn't really feel like one. Also, Stan is a simple crazy psycho-ish villain with nothing much of depth to him. The first plotline worked for me in the way it did, mostly because of the amazing performances of Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. They were very great. Leon was written very carefully. And ........ Gary Oldman ......... I love the man as an actor, he is amazing in most of the his movies I have watched. May be his performances in "Darkest Hour" and as Commissioner Gordon in Dark Knight Trilogy are my favorite Gary Oldman performances. I haven't seen all of his movies, but this is by far the worst Gary Oldman performance I have ever seen. A part of it is to be blamed on Besson, but nothing can be taken away from Oldman. He simply hams up the performance. On the whole, it's a very enjoyable movie and has it's goods and has it's flaws. Not bad at all. It's good. But it feels like hypocrisy to have this movie as the 30th highest rated movie on IMDb. It gets a "B" and a "6.7/10".
Lebowskidoo This movie caught me way off guard in theaters back in 1994, and it impressed me even more again on a rewatch. Luc Besson's greatest film, and this, from someone who was obsessed with The Big Blue and watched it way too many times.Gary Oldman, in what is probably his most evil and fascinating character, Natalie Portman slaying us all in her film debut and Jean Reno's best role ever. What more could you want?Hypnotic and emotional, action packed and brutal, sweet and beautiful.Éric Serra provides the score, and it reminds me so much of his score for Goldeneye, which I had not yet seen yet back when I first saw The Professional. He even wrote a song for The Professional end credits that got cut in favor of a Sting song, which wound up used in the Goldeneye end credits, "The Experience of Love."