An action movie from a professional mafia killer,
and his young daughter-like companion.
Quite famous action movie, Leon, tells a story about professional mafia
killer Leon, and young orphan girl Mathilda.
Mathilda's father is a drug dealer, who works for corrupted DEA detectives.
Father steals stuff from his bosses, and the leader of the detectives, Stansfield, decides to kill the father and his family.
When the execution takes place, Mathilda is shopping, and she is the only survivor
of the family. Mathilda turns to the neighbor, who just happens to be a
professional Mafia killer, and asks him to take care of her.
Mathilda wants to revenge the killing of her young brother to the cops, and she
wants to become a killer too. So. She asks Leon to teach her how to kill, and
Leon agrees to help her While living and spending time together, the
unconventional couple forms quite conventional father-daughter relationship.
The movie itself is a very traditional action movie. Action, humor, blood,
corpses and all other required elements are included.
Good choice for the friends of the action genre. Not going to be
disappointed.

Leon ( Jean Reno ) and Mathilda ( Natalie Portman )
Leon was filmed during the summer 1993.