I love, love, loved this movie. Luc Besson has come a long way toward making a French film for American audiences. I would put this on par with Brotherhood of the Wolf but without the convoluted political subtext.
So this is basically It's A Wonderful Life on crack. Andre is a two-bit schemer who owes money to the wrong people. He has no friends, no family, and no country, being a half-Algerian Frenchman with an American visa. So he decides he's going to jump off a bridge instead of getting whacked by gangsters for not coming up with the cash.
Luck is still not with him, because a mysterious miniskirted bottle-blond Amazon has the same idea and even the same bridge. So he forgoes suicide to rescue her and exhorts her to not waste her life but take up a cause. She chooses him.
He spends much of the movie baffled, bewildered and bewitched by this amoral minx with mile-long legs.
If Jimmy Stewart's guardian angel looked like that I don't think he would have gone home.
Anyway, it's a journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and ultimately acceptance of others. But I had you at mile-long legs, didn't I?
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