What!? This movie rocks.

You didn't like Leon - so you get Battle : Los Angeles I loved Leon - it's a great movie - I thought Oldman was great in it. Oh well, I'm going to watch it again now...

Sure, even the circumcised American version isn't as bad as S&E say but I think I can see what they were talking about. Oldman's performance, while great, is kinda over the top a little but it's more an exercise in style than reality. Those are traditionally risky waters to tread in cinema and Besson doesn't have anything to feel bad about. The audience (and DVD buyers) have spoken and it's a verified hit.

I'm off to watch it again too...a calm moment before the storm.

Leon was fucking brilliant. If Siskel was so smart, why is he dead?

Hah, score 1 for me.

I thought Gary Oldman was awesome.

Great title, Shuac. You make a valid, well-said point that the scenes deleted - now fail to give the movie it's 'bones'. The reasons S&E gave for not liking the film, were completely due to the trickle-down effect of those important removed scenes.

And the hanging scene Ebert mentioned...is just pure Hollywood, bad-ass fun. If he is picking apart 'impossible' gun scenes in movies, he had better start rewriting all of his review books now. Watch out Matrix.

These guys are both douche bags. They give negative reviews to good movies and good reviews to shit movies. I don't think their comments here would have been any different if the removed scenes had been left in. They're just a pair of shit disturbers. Also, his name is Léon not Lee-on.

I've found that film critics are like bizarro film reviewers. If they say a movie is shit, I usually go and see it. If they say a movie is good I usually don't bother. Funnily enough - except for a few rare occasions - it's paid off tremendously.

Fuck these guys.

Not wishing to be merely contrary, I find reviews by Roger Ebert to be highly insightful. The recent half-star review of Battlefield: Los Angeles, for example, is hilarious and quite useful to those of us who have historically identified with Mr. Ebert's cinematic prowess. The television program Siskel & Ebert, when it was on, can be forgiven for its rare misstep, like the review of The Professional, even though, as I've pointed out, the version screened was quite compromised. Those who systematically regard their reviews with, as stated above, an "inversion principle" have my pity as surely possessing an abating sum of cognitive capacity. In short, lick my balls. Siskel & Ebert rule.

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