Synopsis
Never make the weapon the target
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.
2019 Directed by Luc Besson
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.
Sasha Luss Helen Mirren Luke Evans Cillian Murphy Lera Abova Alexander Petrov Nikita Pavlenko Anna Krippa Aleksey Maslodudov Eric Godon Ivan Franěk Jean-Baptiste Puech Adrian Can Alison Wheeler Andrew Howard Jan Oliver Schroeder Louise Parker Sasha Beliaeva Greta Varlese Lauren de Graaf Mikhail Safronov Maria Luss Sergey Bachurskiy Ernest Gromov Sergey Zharkov Julia Munrow Jess Liaudin Christopher Craig Yuriy Zavalnyouk Show All…
Olivier Megaton Abigail L.S. Yardley Jawahine Zentar Mathias Honoré Milana Milunović Marie Rolindes Emeline Robbes Alessandro Trovò
Fabrice Bismuth Lorenzo Donati Vincent Richard-Marquis Milos Vidaković Vyacheslav Timonin Greg Fromentin
Mariane Plasteig Cyrille Hertel Alain Figlarz Oumar Diaoure Stéphane Orsolani Patrice Cossonneau Michaël Troude Michelle Figlarz Clément Huet Romain Canonne Jean-Marc Bellu Christophe Marsaud Martin Ivanov Benoit Lavelatte Jérôme Gaspard Sarah Belala John Medalin Christophe Dupuis Brayane Rafiq Francis Bataille Jean-Benoit Guillon Vladimir Houbart David Genty Maxence Fertein Pascal Lavanchy François Girard Aton David Julienne Marko Joksimović Borislav Bogosavac Danka Ilic Dejan Dragosavac Filip Todorovic Luka Todorović Vedran Brkic Pierre-Yves Rosoux Hélène Tran Aurélia Agel Milica Dordevic Ivan Blagojevic Jonathan Bernard Dalibor Kostic Julien Duverger Jérémy Royer Vincent Bouillon Nicolas Pauget Dmitriy Ushakov Thibault Chiron Amedéo Cazzella Alexandre Moreira Geoffrey Chardes Anthony Xerra Bastien Trouvé Sergei Stukanov Mickael Serfati Antrei Semenikhin Luca Ricotta Michel Poirot Bechir Negzaoui Ted Mathie Bratislav Ilic Davy Houze Jonathan Henry Jean Hanela Fleodor Glumov Viven Ar Floc'h Diego Dussarrat Michael Duchet Marko Cvetanovic Alan Cueff Darko Corovic Alain Bour Yoann Bodics Franck Blanc Oscar Arcemisbehere Boško Mitrovic
Didier Lozahic François Lepeuple Stéphane Bucher Matthieu Dallaporta Guillaume Bouchateau Aymeric Devoldère Philippe Penot
EuropaCorp TF1 Films Production Summit Entertainment Work in Progress Fetish Film Skyprod Ondamax Films
Anna: Professional Killer, 安娜, アナ, Anna - Die Agentin, Анна, Anna: El peligro tiene nombre, آنا, אנה, ANNA/アナ, ანა, 안나, Ana, Anna: O Perigo Tem Nome, Anna - Assassina Profissional, Ана, สวยสะบัดสังหาร, Sát Thủ Anna
1985
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Luc Besson’s lifelong obsession with female empowerment has always been hard to square with his lifelong hobby of female objectification. The stylish French auteur and film mogul responsible for the likes of “Lucy,” “The Professional,” and at least nine alleged instances of sexual impropriety loves to build movies around blank women — usually fashion models — who can be reformatted with the power of his own design and costumed with the scant agency he’s afforded them.
In “Anna,” a competent spy thriller that would feel anonymous if not for its slinky bodies and recognizable psychosexual undercurrents, Besson’s signature tendency is expressed with the same literalness that it was in “The Fifth Element” and “La Femme Nikita.” Why start being subtle…
Besson apparently saw ATOMIC BLONDE and figured he had a fiduciary duty to Europacorp shareholders to rip it off. Anyway this is a virtual remake of NIKITA perked up a little bit with a really wearisome time-shifting structure, complete with constant dipshit references to matryoshka dolls. Is this worth sitting through for the one very good action sequence about 40 minutes in? I dunno, but it's not worth sitting through for the really gross surface-level female empowerment stuff coming from a guy who knocked up a 15-year-old girl he met when she was 12.
Cillian I did it for you. Twice.
How and why is he even in this? Is Nolan not paying him enough for continuously elevating his shit?!
Rotten Tomatoes: 36%
Metacritic Metascore: 40
IMDB: 6.6
52/100
Release Date: 21 June 2019
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Budget: $35M
Worldwide Gross: $31.3M
Olga: "Trouble never sends a warning."
SYNOPSIS: Beneath Anna Poliatova's (Sasha Luss') striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
It's clear that the Charlize Theron 2017 smash hit, "Atomic Blonde", has set a new precedent for the female action hero subgenre with Red Sparrow and now Anna being released in consecutive years. While Anna doesn't cross Atomic Blonde's threshold, it's still a serviceable action flick that definitely surpassed my high expectations of "Red Sparrow".
And yes, it's clear…
When will Luc Besson learn that putting a gun in your female protagonist's hands and pretending she's a badass doesn't mean you can subject her to incredibly male-gazey camerawork and costumes and constantly having male characters hit on her? They don't exist to balance eachother out chief.