Leon Review



I feel this film was really good as it starts of with a quick fast paced opening giving us an insight in to one of the main characters Leon as he carries out his day to day job of being a hit man, it then switches to the other main character Matilda and shows the viewer of her hectic life style, of having a rough time with her family as no one takes much notice of her and eventually there two paths cross which makes for a very entertaining film.

At the start of the film these two characters share a little moment where they talk when Matilda is smoking at the top of the stairs, at this stage you begin to feel that won’t be the last they see of each other as Matilda’s dad is getting in trouble with a crooked cop and Leon is a hit man, the film starts to unravel itself.

Later on in the film Matilda finds her family has been killed by the crooked cop, this is the point where she seeks Leon’s help, they create a bond but you can see Leon is uncomfortable with it at first but comes to accept it and in the end likes the company and they generally care for each other, the first signs of this is when Matilda desperately wants Leon to teach her to become a cleaner but Leon just wants to make sure she is safe and looked after.

When the film is coming to an end with the last dramatic scene where the crooked cop has drafted in what looks to be the entire police force to kill Leon, he makes a desperate last stand but only making sure Matilda is safe and out of the way first, this shows the viewer that there bond has grown a lot and they genuinely care for each other like a father and daughter would, but in the end in a double twist, the crooked cop kills Leon but Leon took the pins out of his grenades on his body and killed the cop but not before saying “this is from Matilda”.

If Leon survived it would have been a typical fairy tale story scenario where the baddie (crooked cop) does some thing bad and the goodie (Leon) gets his revenge and saves the day, this shows that it doesn’t always end the way you would like it to but showed the reality of the situation, this also made the film a lot more entertaining as there were twists and turns through out.