Midweek Movie- The Professional

Usually we save the indulgences for the weekends. We stay up late on Friday or Saturday nights, we eat junky stuff and swear we'll get back in the gym on Monday. We do all the things we don't make time for during the week. I think we should start indulging on Wednesdays, to get us over the hump and motivate us for the rest of the week. Tonight, I left the dishes in the sink and the laundry in the dryer, put on my favorite bumming around outfit, popped some corn, and settled into my favorite spot on the couch to watch....

Well hello, Leon. Tall, dark, handsome, brooding Leon.  Leon is a Cleaner, a loaner hitman who unintentionally befriends Matilda (played by Natalie Portman), a 12-year old neighbor girl whose family is killed by a rogue unit of the DEA. Matilda wants revenge and wants Leon to teach her how to get it. Leon wants his simple life back but settles into the role of protecting Matilda from Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman), head of the rogue unit that is looking to destroy the only remaining witness to her family's murder. And then, it gets complicated....

You will forget to breathe. You will need a tissue. You will yell at the TV. You will cheer. You will need another tissue. You will remind yourself again to breathe. You will hide your eyes with a pillow. You will forget you have popcorn in your lap, jump up, and spill it on the couch. You will yell again. You will want five more minutes of Leon and Matilda when the credits roll. You will wonder if you have time before bed to watch it again.

The tagline of this movie, according to IMDB is: "A perfect assassin. An innocent girl. They have nothing left to lose except each other." And I promise, you will get lost in them too.