Product Description

"You're one of us now" Nikita is told. But has she truly abandoned her compassionate nature and become an unquestioning member of the soulless covert organization called Section One? Or has she mastered the group's knack for deceit and cover-up so efficiently that she can beat Section One at its own game? The sleek chic and powerful adventures of the agent codenamed Josephine continue in Season Four starring Peta Wilson in the title role.Running Time: 975 min.System Requirements:Running Time 975 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 012569733411 Manufacturer No: 73341

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11262 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2006-07-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 6
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 975 minutes

Amazon.com
The fourth season of the espionage action series La Femme Nikita might've been its last, were it not for a heroic effort to revive the show by its fans. Since the campaign was a success, the fourth season remains an exciting chapter in the cult series' history, and one with a startling denouement that left audiences begging for more. The crux of the series pits Section One's sinister head, Operations (Robert Eugene Glazer) against Nikita's partner/lover Michael (Roy Dupuis), who has been deemed expendable; meanwhile, Michael must find a way to deprogram Nikita (Peta Wilson) from the brainwashing that has turned into a destructive killing machine. Highlights from this season include the two-parter "Man in the Middle" and "Love, Honor and Cherish," which finds Nikita betrothed to a wealthy industrialist (Maxwell Caulfield) who is Section's next target; "No One Lives Forever," in which Nikita is granted her freedom in exchange for the murder of the man who killed her father (whose identity is one of the season's most gasp-worthy surprises); and the three-part conclusion ("Face in the Mirror," "Up the Rabbit Hole," and "Four Light Years Farther"), which reveals stunning news about Nikita's true identity, delivers a unpleasant fate for one of the major characters, and leaves the rest in particularly dire straits. Were this the conclusion of the series as intended, the fourth season certainly provided a worthy wrap-up, with more than its share of intrigue and last-minute plot twists; as it stands, it's exceptionally fun TV, with a fine balance of action and romance between the charismatic and attractive. Wilson and Dupuis. The six-disc set includes all 22 episodes of the fourth season; Eugene Robert Glazer provides commentary for two episodes, "Time to Be Heroes" and "Sympathy for the Devil," on which he's respectively joined by director Brad Turner and writer Peter Lenkov; there's also a collection of deleted scenes with commentary by Christopher Heyn assistant to the show's executive consultant Joel Surnow, and a gag reel. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews

a pleasure to watch
LFN Fourth Season is great!!! However, I took these DVDs on vacation with me-- across the ocean to Europe-- and they would not play. The DVD player kept giving me a warning that said "check your regional code". So let that be a reminder to anyone who will bring their DVDs with them to a foreign country.

Le Femme Nikita Rediscoveres Itself !!!
Season Four is in a very real sense two different seasons. The first ten episodes, while well done, continues to "play games" with the characters and explore parapsychology. HOWEVER, beginning with Episode 11: TIME TO BE HEROES, an episode that explodes at you with amazing and intricate new relationships mirroring reality once more, AND marks the return of Le Femme Nikita to its' roots. Granted, as explained in the commentary, the episode was written in hopes of creating a spin-off show. BUT what the episode managed to do was kick start the second half of the season, which in my opinion is Le Femme Nikita at its' VERY BEST !!!

In my review of Season One, I stated "...what really distinguishes Nikita is the fact that I find the episodes to be about relationships, not spies, sci-fi, terrorism, theoretical "ultra-secret" governmental agencies (albeit, I am sure the Bush administration would really enjoy the freedom of Section One), or any thing else. It is a microscopic look at the way people interact (both in 1995 and today). That is, through the established structure of the fictional Section One, relationships between people are highly controlled and well defined. One wrong move and you are "dead;" figuratively or (from the view point of the show) literally. One misunderstanding between two people can cascade into all sorts of outcomes. Lies and truths are intertwined (granted, in exaggerated excesses), driving the various relationships. Trust is a commodity that is elusive and even harder to maintain; games are habitually used. And POWER is the key to all relationships, interactions/actions, and motivations--either directly or indirectly; with or with out awareness." This is what Season Four brings back. I believe this so much that I am in full agreement with Andrew Hornes' comment in his review: "If I were to purchase only one season, this would have to be it."

The gritty, in your face relationships, interactions, and actions are even reflected in the episode titles; in particular, the last four: Time Out Of Mind; FACE IN THE MIRROR (!!!); UP The Rabbit Hole; and Four Light Years Farther. These episodes exude the key to these relationships and interactions: POWER. This is Le Femme Nikita at its' best and--I believe--parenthetically presages the greatness of Le Femme Nikita's recent cousin, 24.

great fun
Makes you wish the Sections were real to fight the terrorists. Good writing and a foxy Nikita. Great fun.