Movie Review: Leon

Whoa guys, this one was something else.  Truly an excellent action movie, but also an excellent film.  The film follows Leon, played expertly by Jean Reno, a hit man for the mafia who one day takes in 12 year-old Matilda, played by a 12 year-old Natalie Portman, whose family was just knocked off by a bunch of crooked DEA agents.  She convinces Leon to teach her the trade and they bond.  Leon, always the professional, keeps her at a distance and out of his dangerous work, but she keeps pushing him to let her work with him.

The movie that this reminded me of was Taxi Driver, in the sense that you have a young girl coming on to an older man.  Matilda's character is a bad mouth, but very mature and she constantly makes advances towards Leon, who is smarter than that.  The relationship they have though is very touching and never gets creepy like it seems it will.  

This was a great movie that has something everyone can enjoy and appreciate from the action scenes, to the development of Leon from the cold hit man into a more human being.