![]() ![]() Natalie Portman's Mathilda is the antithesis of these namby-pamby Dawson's Creek actors-in-waiting. I for one am usually rooting for the kidnappers. Often they are kidnapped and huge ransoms demanded while their parents go demented with worry. ![]() They are all doey-eyed, bouffant-haired brats who can cry on cue and are always ready with a cutesy, smart-alec comment that will cause their adult co-stars to tinkle with laughter or tousle their hair playfully. He cannot read, he doesn't sleep, he hasn't the trappings of family or wealth (the fees for his hits are habitually trousered by his `benefactor': sleazy small-time Italian gangster Tony (Danny Aiello)) - In short, he lives like a robot. Leon's life is as simple as a small child's: TV, lashings of milk and the odd gangland assassination. Thin and wiry with toilet brush hair and a face like a bag of spanners, he is hardly your typical gun-toting action hero, but he has an innocence and compassion that makes you fall for him instantly. It obviously helps when your leading man has as much screen presence as Jean Reno. Sad, funny, violent, incredibly touching - few films manage to tick all the boxes and even fewer are about hitmen. Every time I watch Leon is as gripping and enjoyable as the first. Occasionally I make an exception - some films simply cannot be fully appreciated on just one viewing. I have long thought that owning films on DVD or video is a waste of money - you watch them once and after that they are left to fester at the back of a cupboard. ![]()
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