LUC BESSON!
Plenty of directors I love are accused of being "style over substance" but if the style is done well, it IS substance in my book. What I dislike about Besson is that I always find his style a bit pretentious, childishly simplistic, slathered on with a trowel and totally distracting from the story.
I have disliked all of his films, but the two worst offenders are the two that seem widely loved - yes, believe it or not, I cannot stand either Nikita or Léon.
Léon is the worst of the two, for me. It stretches its slender story very thin, it looks awful and it has that DREADFUL Gary Oldman performance, which is a textbook in mugging and scenery chewing over-indulgence to no end. I simply don't get what people like about it!
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