By skyforbes The first 40 minutes of the film were pretty good and sure I understood the girl was going through trauma having just had her drug dealing father and family shot and killed, with Leon deciding to save her, and I was supporting her goal for revenge after her little brother was killed, as the only light in her life was gone.
Then with Leon reluctantly teaching her the skills to be an assassin and the nice story with the plants and about roots, how Leon never stays in one place for too long due to his job.
But then that scene where she's dancing in costumes getting him to guess the famous women just rubbed me the wrong way, then her lying on the bed talking about being in love with him, and finally talking about her "first time" with him, I audibly said out loud "Isn't she supposed to be 13 or what?!" I was wondering what this film was even doing and if they going to dare cross that line….
Sure Leon never acted once on Mathildas 'advances' but then by the end of the film I got a 'I will wait til she's older' vibe from him when he was helping her to escape through the walls of the apartment, then ends up dying for her.
But I will say though Gary Oldman did an amazing villain to this movie (Apparently he is an amazing actor, but beyond Harry Potter, I have never seen many films he's in), very Joker-like, particularly that scene in the bathroom where he confronts Mathilda and makes her realise she still ultimately favours her life over revenge.
Will not be a film I would recommend though due to it's pedophilia undertones.