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The Last Good-Bye
"Benny, bring me everyone," snarls snivelling wasel Gary Oldman as he attempts to root out the film's quasi-Lolita coupling, hit man jean Reno and protege Natalie Portman, from their scuzzy New York hotel. He's going to need everyone. While the extraordinary gunfight twists and recoils into ever more exotic shapes, crafted by the ingenuity of both acrobatic killer reno and his Gallic director Luc Besson's athletic camera (extra marks for POV death scences), the sequence also proves to be the movie's emotional fulcrum. Only in this deliciously inverted love stary could such a touching goodbye be conjured amid a storm of bullets and crumbling masonry.
Empire Magazine
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