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The Professional
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1189
- IMDb #1365
- Google retired #287
- Rotten Tomatoes #1552
- Metacritic #1156
- Letterboxd #1874
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1982
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1595
- Metacritic Critics #2104
- Metacritic Audience #171
- Criticker #754
- Kinopoisk #132
- AlloCiné #1435
- Trakt #1685
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 61, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A retired hitman is pulled back into the world of assassination for one last job. His task is to eliminate a powerful politician, but the mission is complicated by his own strict moral code and the unexpected involvement of a young woman he meets. The operation becomes a complex game of cat and mouse.
Details
- Director
- Georges Lautner
- Writers
- Georges Lautner, Jacques Audiard, Michel Audiard
- Studio
- Cerito Films, Les Films Ariane
- Released
- 21 October 1981
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 108 min
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (26) →
Awards
2 wins & 3 nominations
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