Leon the Professional Blind Movie Reaction!

[@theoneandonlykk86]

The fact that some people know acting titan Gary Oldman only as "that guy from the Batman movies" hurts my soul. 😂 Oldman received a Best Actor Oscar in 2017 and was nominated in 2011 and 2020. He played Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, President Truman in Oppenheimer, Sirius Black in Harry Potter, Zorg in the Fifth Element, Dracula in... well, Dracula, he's been in True Romance, Air Force One, Hannibal, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Mank, and also in 2 episodes of Friends ... one of the most famous actors on the planet.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Seems like a bunch of movies we need to watch!

[@lockekappa500]

Also painful for one of them to only know Natalie Portman from Thor.

[@AL-fl4jk]

Yes! One of the greats of his generation

[@PanzerKunstExponent]

He was also the villain in Book of Eli. Of all the movies he's been, I like his Commissioner Gordon, this role & his role in Air Force One. He's a versatile dude!

[@Theonlynamenoonehas]

Dont forget True Romance. Although he's almost completely unrecognisable in that. @PanzerKunstExponent

[@Jackomack]

Is everyone gonna watch this? EVERYONE!!!

[@timriehl1500]

I used to live in NYC and I know there's a monorail like thing that goes from Manhattan to Rosevelt Island and I think it also connects Rosevelt Island with Queens.

[@MrKareal]

Yup... maps.app.goo.gl/Ddeqc3oo8hhWHZN77

[@gavinator354]

lmao how do you guys not recognize gary oldman??

[@732ReviewCrew]

We aren't the best with recognizing faces and names!

[@gavinator354]

@@732ReviewCrew haha fair enough. i just thought for sure one of you might be a gary oldman fan lol

[@RpTheHotrod]

The EVERYYYOOONNNEEEE part was improvised. He was suposed to just to repeat everyone again quietly. However, Oldman just yelled it quite surprisingly and ended up legitimately scaring the other actor. A real life jumpscare, lol.

[@manzell]

The scene where Natalie Portman walks past her apartment to Leon's door and begs him to open it was her first ever scene on film!

[@themonkeytrainer]

Glad you liked the directing. The Professional was directed by Luc Besson, who also directed La Femme Nikita (and the American remake Point of No Return), The Fifth Element, Taxi, Kiss of the Dragon, The Transporter movies, the Taken movies, Valerian, Unleashed, Ong Bak, Columbiana, Lucy, A Monster in Paris, and many many more. The guy's work is all over the place and his reputation is disturbing, but he has made many fantastic films and a few stylistic masterpieces, including this one. The flash of light when Leon is shot still gives me chills. He also directed many of Gary Oldman's most eccentric performances.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

the guy is just... professional! 😊

[@alanfoster6589]

Don't miss his b&w love letter to Paris, "Angel A".

[@benjamindeharo314]

Luc Besson hasn't directed half the movies in your list

[@DanielaDormiaru-ih9xf]

With the exception of Ong Bak, he either directed or wrote the screenplay/produced them.

[@benjamindeharo314]

@@DanielaDormiaru-ih9xf he didn't directed or wrote the screenplay/produced the remake "Point of No Return" neither contrary to what the op said

[@katertom]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway ist the cable car in the movie.

[@dougmoodie8713]

A modern classic, and Natalie Portman is brilliant

[@urospredic-ho9cf]

How American to replace film critique with moralizing. Everyone does it. And I mean EVERYOANEEE!!!

[@stirbjoernwesterhever6223]

Luc Besson and Gary Oldman were in NYC to shoot The 5th Element but the start was delayed. Therefore Luc Besson wrote and shot Leon in 5 weeks to use the time til the start of 5th Element :-)

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

Matilda isnt being rebellious, she is a product of the environment she grew up in, therefor the uncomftable moments were she is acting much older than she is.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

Gary Oldman and Jean Reno in a movie together! It was and remains a huge gift to their fans! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@gavinator354]

one of my fav movies of all time

[@Voltar10036]

Air tram to Roosevelt Island and works with a regular metrocard/OMNY and transfers to the NYCT (buses and subways)

[@spacecow149]

Roosevelt Island Tram

[@alanfoster6589]

the "monorail".

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

I had forgotten I usually cry at the end, got reminded as I watched the end lol Fun reactions guys! :)

[@invaderliz]

Lol, love the Jersey outrage at the end!

[@tomaszmankowski9103]

Hi! It was one of the recent movie I've proposed, because I though you might try a 90s action movie, which is thanks to the director Luc Besson, more 'european-like'. I was hesitant, I have to admit, given some scenes which are disturbing. Still La Femme Nikita, which I believe to be a more interesting, European action film would require subtitles and that makes it slightly more difficult to follow for people watching your reaction movies. Plus I knew Mikey would like that Natalie Portman is here and she is simply excellent in 'Leon'. In my opinion the movie is like an exaggerated US action movie made by a foreigner who tries to make his version of a US action flick, so it could be said 'Leon" has some similarities with for example.... 'Samurai Cop'. The difference is of course that 'Leon' is very well made, while 'Samurai Cop'... I still hope you will watch it one day... When it comes to the acting. Notice how Jean Reno (Leon) made his character a bit... slow so that the relationship with a traumatised teenager is strange, but not creepy. Plus scenes with Gary Oldman are just somehow so surreal and over the top. Take care!

[@dougmoodie8713]

Always hoping she does a sequel to this, Matilda, as a grown up cleaner carrying on his work

[@Ernwaldo]

In more recent years Natalie Portman has voiced her displeasure with how she was portrayed in this film, in retrospect. So, unlikely she will do a “sequel.” But maybe with the correct script & director??? On that note, I’ve read that Luc Besson & a writing partner had been working on a script about an adult Mathilda as an assassin. Besson had a falling out with executives at Gaumont & left. Gaumont retained the rights to the script. Besson (& others?) reworked the script about a Brazilian girl who witnesses her parents’s murders & grows up to be an assassin. That film is *Columbiana* (2011) & stars Zoe Saldana. Different director though.

[@cobba42]

One of the all time classic movies. Shame though that you watched the redacted version (At least that's what it looked like to me). There are a couple more Luc Besson movies that most everybody knows, you probably as well: Nikita, The Fifth Element, The Transporter, Colombiana, Lucy ...

[@732ReviewCrew]

The version was from Netflix

[@lockekappa500]

I dunno, I watched the full director's cut version and was NOT a fan. Some of the extra scenes are nice, but it's pacing is awful, the cut scenes are obviously of much lower quality than the rest, and they take the lolita aspect of the film way too far imo. (which also kind of muddles the positive and healthy relationship they have) Top that with the director having questionable relationships with minors, I think I prefer this version better. Or at least not the director's cut.

[@kevindean0000]

@@732ReviewCrew Too bad. The Version Integrale (extended cut) is approximately 26 minutes longer. So, heads up, if you ever do The Abyss, be sure it's the Special Edition, it's around 28 minutes longer and adds back the point of the whole movie. I mention this one since people often choose the wrong one there too.

[@benjamindeharo314]

@@lockekappa500 I love how in the midst of all the violence, the murders, the slaughter of Mathilda's family, including her 4yo brother, and being made to sympathize with a killer who teach a little girl how to kill, it's the pseudo love story that bothers you. Are you American by any chance ? (￣ლ￣๑)

[@johncampbell756]

Off topic: Have you seen Clerks? A film shot entirely in Monmouth County.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Ironically I have not. Not sure about the guys. Considering we live there.... Mikey

[@vlasisv3415]

@@732ReviewCrew 37?!

[@johncampbell756]

@732ReviewCrew most of the film was shot at the Quick Stop Mart at 58 Leonard Ave, Leonardo, NJ 07737 where Kevin was working at the time (1994). I don't know how far from there you are. My brother-in-law lived about 2.5 miles from there at the time. Now a whole 11 miles. LOL

[@732ReviewCrew]

@johncampbell756 16 miles!

[@johncampbell756]

@@732ReviewCrew Currently, 2804. Growing up: 19.

[@baseball_tomorrow-sv9tk]

If you look into it, it's obvious the director intentionally put weird stuff in this movie. But I can separate the art from the artist, and see Leon and Mathilda's relationship as father-daughter. So it's still one of my favorite movies of all time.

[@carter6619]

I love Leon's Gun collection, The modified Berretta 92FS have some sweet custom compensators. The john wick series reminds me of Leon. I could see the wick movies sharing a universe with Leon the Professional.

[@JulioHernandez-chico]

This Is one of my favorite movies. So you guys didn't recognize Natalie Portman? The little girl? ( padme) Anakin's girl from Star wars and Jane from thor movies.

[@EShelby2127]

Roosevelt Island

[@Jacana2k6]

Might we worth watching some more Gary Oldman movies (not Batman or Harry Potter related). To list list I want to add Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I know it is Shakespeare adjacent but very worth it.

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

Wait none of you guys know who Gary MOTHERFEEFING Oldman is?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!? Color me shocked 😆He is just one of our times best actor ever. The Dracula of Draculas! "I have crossed oceans of time to find you" ;insert me melting from hotness 🥰. & Zorg in The Fifth element, not to mention Sirius Black in Harry Potter! I could go on. Like seriously, what planet of non existing movies do you guys come from?!?!?!!? HAHA 🤣

[@732ReviewCrew]

We are bad with names and faces!! 😂

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

@@732ReviewCrew lol ;inserts the "One does not simply" meme into this comment; if it was possible! Gary is one of those actors that actually plays different roles & not just acting like himself in roles. Every single role he has done is like seeing something new each time. He is just brilliant! A name & face worthy of being remembered :)

[@andreaschmall5560]

They should have titled this movie "Leon and Mathilde". The actual title falls flat as it ignores the foundation of the film...IMO.

[@Dene181]

Such a great movie!

[@Biomirth]

You guys, particularly since it bugged you, should do the directors cut, which will bug you some more. More people need to know how to actually deal than pretend nothing ever happens like that.

[@invaderliz]

I think Matilda doesn’t have any idea how to have any kind of relationship with an adult other than what she’s seen on TV and from her stepmom and step sister (in the beginning). I also saw that part of her character as a way of feeling in control of her life. Still gross and super sad though.

[@Justaperson717]

The laughing guy is so annoying.