Movie review: Point of No Return

[seriousfic]

This is a remake of the classic action movie La Femme Nikita, and although I don't know how they compare since it's been a while since I've seen the original, I'm going to rate this a failure based on the scene where Maggie/Nina/Claudia (the Bridget Fonda character, who is amazingly not Jodie Foster, even though there's this Helen Hunt/Leelee Sobieski thing going)... where was I before the parenthesis? Oh yeah, she eats ravioli. Sexily. It was horrible. She's having this dinner date with your standard Douchey Artsy Boyfriend and then she goes up to him and you think, okay, love scene, this won't be so bad. Then she picks the ravioli up with her bare hands and then she puts it in her mouth and he eats it and then they're kissing it and you know what? NOT OKAY.

Two thumbs down. Plus, when they replaced Jean Reno's Cleaner character, they made him look like Alan Ruck for some reason.

Comments

[iteari.livejournal.com]

That...doesn't sound very hygienic.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

It's put me off both food and sex, so, my life just got a lot more boring.

Cheque, please. And a fork for my date.

[nonky.livejournal.com]

OH, the ravioli. I could see what they were trying to do. Nina/Nikita has been locked up for years, in training with her stoic and not very social mentor/handler. She's talked to more like his dog than a person. It's the classic 'break you down to build you up.' So she gets out, gets an apartment and then has this weird notion of everything. She can't remember what she likes so she goes to the grocery store and buys a million cans of ravioli. The artist guy teases her about it, and that's how he gets invited to dinner. That's right - canned ravioli romantic dinner. Sexy.

BUT, part of her training is seduction, blending in at parties, etc., so she should have been able to manage something better than bumping noses as they ate the same pasta. Disney movie dogs do it better! The subtext was that she was broken and longing for human contact. The scene as it played just went squick.