“La Femme Nikita combines hip violence, punk anomie, lavish settings and an old-fashioned paean to the power of love. These unlikely ingredients are held together by Mr. Besson’s agile direction and by the strange and vicious Nikita as played by the striking Anne Parillaud.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“La Femme Nikita is a smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller by the young French director Luc Besson… it begins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine’s transformation. ” – Roger Ebert
