The Professional

[Lightsped]

I was told by a coworker that the movie "Professional" has alot of good gun scenes in it.

I have not seen the movie. Does anyone here recommend the DVD? What kind of guns are in this movie?

 

[grimlock]

Get Leon: The Professional. It's kinda like the director's cut.

Not only does it have good gun scenes, it's a great movie. A little screwed up, but awesome at the same time.

Anyway, it's got pistols with and without silencers, submachine guns, a shotgun with mag ext and forend light, a sniper rifle, really all kinds of stuff. Oh, and grenades too.

Great movie. I highly recommend it.

 

[Mark Tyson]

It's an underrated Jean Reno film about a hit man with a conscience.

Instead of a DVD I'd go get an "ARRRrrrr! Matey!" copy of the director's cut, which is available in high quality.

There's a lot of guns in the movie, and I can't remember them all at this point. Maybe George Hill can do a review of it on his page.

 

[tc300mag1]

Excellent Movie. There a lot of guns in there to many to ry to rember off the top of my head

 

[AJ Dual]

"...No women, No kids..."

A good flic.

One thing that irked me though, was the scene where Leon is "training" Natalie Portmans character in the art of assasination.

One of the exercises was sniping from a rooftop at an otherwise random wealthy/important man jogging in Central Park with his protection detail. IIRC the rifle looked to be something in the AR family, and she shot the man with some kind of empty tranquilizer dart as "practice". Other than being frightened, and stuck with the dart's needle, the target was unhurt.

Any dart that large and heavier than a rifle bullet, shot from a rooftop with sufficient velocity to reach a running man who was at minimum across the street at the park, and probably further, and also 20 stories down, would have been just as lethal as a bullet.

I know the point of the movie was not realisim, but it bugged me the same anyway.

 

[Litlman]

Good movie!

 

[grimlock]

You also have guys taking a pistol shot in the solar plexus and dying in .5 seconds. Overall, though, an excellent movie. The opening scene is just brilliant.

 

[DigMe]

I really dig this movie and always have. I was stoked when I went to China and found Leon on DVD with the extra 30 minutes that wasn't on my american video release. Then I came back to America and realized they had also released it there and that's a good thing. Don't know why they originally pulled out that thirty minutes for America. This movie is kind of an artsy action flick and that's not a bad thing (some may not consider it arty but it's Luc Besson and it's his typical style so there you go). It's very cool.

I liked Leon's tactical potted plant.

If you want to see Jean Reno's original appearance as "the cleaner" then check out the movie Le Femme Nikita. I like Jean Reno...he was one of the few redeeming qualities of the "Godzilla" remake.

AJ Dual -

He shot the guy with some kind of a paint pellet, not a dart. It still struck me as kind of a far shot for a paint pellet though.

brad cook

 

[Trebor]

I liked the movie, but I thought the gun parts were extremely unrealistic.

 

[Sean Smith]

It is a fun gun movie, but not a realistic one. Wierd but enjoyable.

 

[c_yeager]

One of the exercises was sniping from a rooftop at an otherwise random wealthy/important man jogging in Central Park with his protection detail. IIRC the rifle looked to be something in the AR family, and she shot the man with some kind of empty tranquilizer dart as "practice". Other than being frightened, and stuck with the dart's needle, the target was unhurt.

Im fairly certain that it was actually some sort of paintball type round that he was hit with. I'll check again though.

Also, the "Leon" version is readily available on DVD here in the states. If your local film store doesnt have it then Amazon/Barnes and Nobel do. There is no reason to aquire an "arrr matey" copy other than being cheap and unethical. GOOD films deserve our money and this one was a NICE departure from typical holywood crap and certainly made no negative comments on RKBA etc.

 

[Willard]

I love it, lots of cool, wierd stuff. Jean Reno is good as the "cleaner".
Two thumbs up from me.....

SiGs, S&W's, an AR, Rem 870, Barettas, grenades......

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

Definitely a "must see" for action and good story content. I'll add this one to my DVD collection soon.

 

[IRONFIST]

Get ready guys, because it looks like there is going to be sequel to "The Professional!" Natalie Portman will be reprising her role as "Matilda" and has said that she postponed a planned vaction to work on the sequel because the script was that good. I really liked the original movie and it will be interesting to see how the sequel shapes up.

 

[Justin]

Not a terribly realistic movie but the story, characters, and fantastic cinematography more than make up for it.

 

[Ukraine Train]

Good movie. I also remember the guy being shot with a paintball.

 

[bogie]

Yeah, and well, the guy in the park wasn't supposed to be a businessman... How many "businessmen" go jogging with protection details? I thought that was hilarious...

 

[Hugo]

I have a few questions. Early on during the SWAT scene (boy did they make a few movie mistakes) one of the SWAT guys leans around the corner to take a look (good example of why they use mirrors) and Leon puts a gun to his head. You can almost read the name on the end of the gun near the muzzle. I think it said "ALIMECI" or something like that. What the heck kind of gun was that? It seemed like a .45 to me. Anybody know?

Also later at the end of the Swat scene they bring a HUGE mean looking belt fed machine gun on a mini tripod and put a grenate on the muzzle. What the heck was that gun? My friends and I watching it the first time all said "Whoaaaa" when the guy brought that out. Looked to be .308 but maybe .223 or whatever NATO would call it. Anybody know?

Oh and that scene in the park with the jogger was a paint round, at the end she asked Leon "Can we try this with real bullets now?" Kinda freaky part of the movie.

 

[AJ Dual]

Ah...

Although a paint pellet that can make that distance at that velocity is still

I must have thought that the paint splatter was the fuzzy end of a dart.

 

[Harold Mayo]

Wasn't this the movie where Leon was told that a sniper rifle is "only for beginners"? Something about getting more skilled and moving in closer and closer until you're killing with pistols or your hands or something like that?

 

[Penforhire]

Great movie. Umm, if you're into twisted violent movies with an undertone of pedophilia (but isn't Natalie hot in Star Wars...). Gary Oldman played one his usual scary psycho roles ("...is that Mozart?"). Loved the inventive tactics. How many entry teams really would look straight up?

 

[Kamicosmos]

A sequel would be interesting. Could wind up being a redo of La Femme Nikita/Point of No Return though...

I would like to see a serious movie about a female hitman....errr Hitperson. Not like the Traci Lords/Anna Nicole stuff you see at Blockbuster. (Not that there's anything wrong with those! At least the covers anyway...)

 

[Treylis]

He said that distance weapons were for unskilled beginners... "the rifle is the first thing you learn, the knife the last" or somesuch.

 

[Sean Smith]

Umm, if you're into twisted violent movies with an undertone of pedophilia

More like a pubescent girl's crush on an older man than pedophilia. She hits on him, not the other way 'round, and it wierds him out (as you'd hope it would).

 

[fix]

with an undertone of pedophilia

I see I wasn't the only one to notice that.