The Professional

 

For this weeks post i decided to watch a movie called The Professional starring Natalie Portman and Jean Reno. The Professional is about a professional hit man named Leon who keeps to himself and for some odd reason loves to drink milk. Leon’s next door neighbor is a 12 year old girl named Matilda who has a very dis functional family. Matilda’s father is a cocaine dealer who deals with some pretty shady and once he starts to piss them off because he owes them a lot of money, these crooked cops who are actually drug dealers come and kill her whole family while she is out getting groceries. When Matilda come home she is horrified to find her whole family dead, including her 4 year old brother which was the only one she cared about. At this point Matilda is very frightened and the only person she knows to turn to is her strange neighbor Leon. As Matilda stays with Leon she becomes more curious about him and finds out that he is a cleaner  (hit man). She immediately becomes fascinated with his work and eventually wants to be one when she grows up. Leon ends up taking Matilda under his wing and teaches him everything their is to know about being a hit man. At the end of the movie Matilda finds the crooked cops that killed her brother and decides to go after them. After her plan back fires Leon goes in and helps Matilda take out all of the bad cops but actually ends up taking a bullet to the back of the head and dies in the end. Matilda then goes to an orphanage where she will start a new life.

I recommend watching this movie. The professional kept me interested from start to finish. It has a very strong plot and has pretty good acting as well. Some of the action scenes were kind of unrealistic at times but that also made it funny. For one of Natalie Portmans first performances i think she did a great job as well as Jean Reno who played an awesome role as the hit man. This movie was recommended to me by someone  and know i will definitely recommend it to everyone.

I rate this movie 7-10