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excerpt:"he French introduced a frisson of film noir to the fantasy with "La Femme Nikita," the 1990 movie directed by Luc Besson. That character — the sexy delinquent co-opted and trained by a secret government agency to seduce and kill — has lingered in the popular imagination, least memorably in the Americanized remake, "Point of No Return," with Bridget Fonda.
The latest incarnation, "Nikita," which begins on the CW network on Thursday, is a surprisingly sophisticated and satisfying adaptation. It's as sleek as the 1997-2001 television series "La Femme Nikita," which starred Peta Wilson, but darker and more hard-nosed.
In this version Nikita (Maggie Q, "Live Free or Die Hard") is on the run from the rogue agency that turned her into an assassin and she is more of an avenging insurgent than a victim. Nikita is determined to not just escape her former employers/captors but also to expose and destroy them.
It's tempting to conclude that this take on the Nikita tale reflects the harder times that hav
