Sadly, she is more Brendan Fraser than Harrison Ford, loveable at times but occasionally lacking in enough gusto and charm to completely woo the audience. She has striking features, a smile as wide as the Seine and a body that seems to have jumped out of a comic book (this seems apt as the film is based on the Jacques Tardi comics Adele et la Bete and Momies en folie). The French star Louise Bourgoin is a typical Besson heroine. So it seemed like only a matter of time that the director of The Big Blue and Subway would eventually try his hand at making a female Indiana Jones. His credits include 1990's Nikita, in which Anne Parlilaud played the eponymous criminal-turned-assassin, 1994's Leon that saw the debut of Natalie Portman, who was Oscar nominated for her turn as a child trained to kill, while the mega-hit space fantasy The Fifth Element and the historical epic Joan of Arc both saw Milla Jovovich flexing her muscles. The French filmmaker Luc Besson has a penchant for making action films in which the girls get to do all the stunts. Adele: Rise of the Mummy Director: Luc Besson Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric and Giles Lellouche

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