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- 2019
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 58 m
- 2019
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Directed By: Luc Besson
Written By: Luc Besson
- 2019
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 58 m
- 2019
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 58 m
Anna
40
7.7
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Summary Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Directed By: Luc Besson
Written By: Luc Besson
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
40
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
64% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
29% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
40
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
64% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
29% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
As a slick, over-the-top action picture, Anna works splendidly. It features multiple jaw-dropping set-pieces, including a restaurant hit where Anna walks in with an unloaded gun and walks out after killing about a dozen thugs. The plot, while fairly predictable, is at least craftily constructed. On its own merits, this is one rollickingly entertaining film, that under ordinary circumstances Besson fans would adore.
Anna isn’t as stylish or gripping as “Nikita,” but it does have its own demented charm, particularly in how it toys with structure, nesting competing narrative timelines within each other.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 190 User Ratings
7.7
73% Positive
138 Ratings
138 Ratings
18% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
9% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 190 User Ratings
7.7
73% Positive
138 Ratings
138 Ratings
18% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
9% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
A perfect spy movie! Very interesting and well created. Original idea and a brilliant casting
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And though Besson does salvage a reasonably entertaining tale, his unapologetic fetish for women who kill gives the movie an icky feeling of having stumbled across someone’s private web browser.
Anna is not quite pedestrian but it never really feels like the work of someone with anything to say or prove. It’s competent and even complacent at times, a million miles from what one would expect from the director of The Fifth Element.
It’s nowhere near the embarrassment of Brian De Palma’s “Domino,” or any number of recent studio tentpoles. Nor is it fresh enough to pretend that audiences had missed out on something special if it had been buried altogether — except perhaps for Luss, who’s bound to get another shot.
There are a lot of irritants and clumsy touches to Besson’s latest, infuriatingly inferior version of “La Femme Nikita” that ruin it.
Anna relies on a time-shifting structure that is laughably exhausting.
The jumping back and forth in time didn't really do the movie much good. There's some really nice ation scenes, though they're more than just a bit unrealistic. There are quite a few scenes that add little to the story except just slow it down. The acting isn't too bad. All in all a reasonably entertaining movie, just too unbelievable to really be worth remembering.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Besson copes with the financial crisis of his production company by making a popular and louded action movie, with which he returns to the fundamentals of his cinema, his female archetype and a more carefree era for him. But time passes, fans of this genre have seen it all done before and better, and Luc is no longer funny, directing probably his worst film even if he tries to update the clichés with female friendship, the matryoshka identity of his new heroin not credible even for a moment and embarrassing technological anachronisms. Forgettable at most except for the adrenaline that spurts thanks to the two timeless hits of Technotronic and INXS.
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Production Company
Summit Entertainment,
EuropaCorp,
TF1 Films Production,
Orange Cinéma Séries,
TF1,
Canal+,
Télé Monté Carlo (TMC),
Crédit d'Impôt Cinéma et Télévision,
Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC),
Fetish Film,
WIP Films,
Skyprod,
Ondamax Films,
Work in Progress
Release Date Jun 21, 2019
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating R
Tagline Never Make the Weapon the Target
Website
https://anna.movie/
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
International Uşak Short Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
