The Professional (1981)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

One of the rare instances when the music composer is the hero. This is Morricone's film. his famous tune "Chi Mai" is played in many scenes and it lifts many ordinary ones to another level.On the surface, the film is like a tongue in cheek revenge drama. Belmondo plays a French Rambo who is sent to an African nation to assassinate its leader. But he is hung out to dry by the French intelligence services and is jailed following a public trial. After a dramatic escape from an African slave camp, Belmondo returns to France to take revenge on the people who betrayed him.But if you look closely, the film is an odd mix of many genres. It is not just an action film. Sure, there is a spaghetti western style shoot out, a pulsating car chase and some seriously violent action. The women are all objects of sex who want to sleep with Belmondo or get coffee for the superiors. But it is also a satire about the incompetence of French intelligence agencies and how the leaders of first world countries and third world countries are in bed with each other. At one point, a French intelligence agent remarks irritably about a countryside mansion (where an African leader and his prostitute are residing) - "Why are we deploying such a large police force to protect this whorehouse?" The gritty and violent beginning in Africa, is at odds with Belmondo's adventures in France. It is not a bad film. I'm sure there is a context which I don't really get because I'm no expert on French politics and foreign policy.Belmondo is awesome. He must have been pretty old when he made this, but he was really pumped up. The women are all nice eye candy. There is even a lesbian torturer who tries to move in on Belmondo's wife only to get a karate chop on her neck.But like I said at the beginning, the real hero of this film is good old Ennio.

I can give this film 10 stars just on the sound track alone! or me this is the best work of Bel Mondo. The story its just perfect, Joss (main character) uses the orders that the service gave to him to kill president N'Jala even after he became friend to to his government. They betrayed him and left him to die in prison. The character of commissionaire Rosen it's a perfect one. I have seen this movie maybe 20 times and every time I find something new. The speech in the end between the minister and captain Valeras it's my preferred moment: Is this call under surveillance? Of course Mr. Minister. The duel between Rosen and Joss in the best picture of Paris I have ever seen is also great. But the truth is every moment and every word is perfect. You don't have to miss this movie.

Noble Paris, beautiful women, small local cars... At times Africa: poor, wars, corrupted elite... Themes of love, betrayal, broken dreams are universal and fit into a spy and hit-man film as well. Belmondo is a real star, overshadowing others in every scene he is in; I would like to compare his character with James Bond - only in French.Music by Morricone is a real treasure, although it is somewhat similar to the background music from the Soviet cult series Seventeen moments of spring (1973).The ending is strange, however, I would have expected and preferred a more motivated one.

Despite being one of Jean-Paul Belmondo's most popular latter-day vehicles, I have to admit outright that I wasn't really expecting this one (which has been a number of times on late-night Italian TV) to be quite the riveting actioner it turned out to be! The star was pushing fifty by this time, with his famous looks already starting to fade (actually, I'd never watched a film of his following the actor's 1960s and 1970s heyday up till now!) – but, to get an inkling of what THE PROFESSIONAL is like, think of a Charles Bronson vehicle from this same era (with the protagonist proving virtually unstoppable and outwitting his pursuers at every turn)…only this is a relatively more polished product, with an eye less on exploitation than political maneuvering.The star is a secret agent sent on a mission to assassinate an African tyrant: eventually, the political climate changes and his superiors decide to sell him to the new African regime; escaping after two years of hard labor, he goes back to his homeland – just in time for a state visit from his previous target – letting his agency in on the fact that he intends to accomplish his initial mission regardless! And so starts the manhunt – with Minister, Chief of Police, Military Adviser (who happens to be Belmondo's ex-tutor), and ruthless Special Squad official all involved. Several women also end up as pawns in the dangerous chess game – including Belmondo's wife, his mistress (a code-breaker at the agency), and even the African President's choice hooker! As I said, the film is action-packed (including a car chase supervised by Remy Julienne and a surprising Western-style showdown between Belmondo and Robert Hossein, the sadistic leader of the Special Squad) yet thoughtful, with numerous ingenious plot twists and a delicious finale (with the various officials, not wanting to lose face after Belmondo's target has been 'terminated', arguing over how they should best tackle the matter – which is then, somewhat inevitably, followed by a downbeat 'curtain'). Driving the film along is an overpoweringly melancholic main theme which, incidentally, is one of master composer Ennio Morricone's most popular works; curiously enough, the theatrical trailer for THE PROFESSIONAL features music from another Morricone-scored movie, INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (1970)! Anyhow, a rich vein of tongue-in-cheek humor helps, too (though this is never allowed to take the upper hand): the best line is when Belmondo abducts a member of the Special Squad (with whom he has various run-ins throughout the film) in order to infiltrate the African leader's heavily-guarded quarters, a country-side château, and he tells him "Act stupid as usual" so as not to draw attention to themselves; interestingly, co-screenwriter Michel Audiard disliked the finished film and, subsequently, disowned it! Unfortunately, the version I watched (via a French Box Set comprising three of the star's 1980s thrillers) was dubbed in English – as the original language, while available, carried no subtitles! I now look forward to these other two films, though I can't really anticipate whether they'll be of comparable quality...