This movie is the Americanized ”La Femme Nikita”, the movie not USA show, although that’s based on that movie too. This was pretty good. Bridget Fonda looks rough for the first 15 minutes or so, while her character is still a druggie. Her character, Maggie, is convicted of murdering a cop and sentenced to death. But a secret government operation sees what a fighter she is and decides to fake her death and train her as an assassin.  Her handler is Bob, played by Gabriel Byrne, whom I’ve had a crush on since my high school days, even though he’s older than my parents. They have a rough time of it at first but after the higher ups threaten to terminate Maggie, she gets trained in record time.

She’s relocated to L.A. I think? Somewhere in California. She quickly shacks up with some guy who’s her landlord. She has to keep her job a secret. Oh, and did I mention there’s HUGE sexual tension between her and Bob? He shows up from time to time to give her new assignments. She tells her boyfriend he’s her uncle but I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to assume he knows that’s not true.

Well, eventually Maggie gets sick of the life and struggles to get out and walk away from it all. And Bob doesn’t get any loving! That irked me more than anything…but I think I just wanted to see Gabriel Byrne in a sex scene.