Anna's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
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.
New York Times
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.
Indiewire
By the time it?s finally over, the only person more exposed than its star is her director.
The A.V. Club
Think of it as a downmarket Atomic Blonde (a film that does Besson?s established shtick with a lot more panache and less ick) or 'Red Sparrow' without the surface-level professionalism; what?s clear is that Besson doesn?t want anyone to think about Anna very hard.
Variety
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. Read full review
The Hollywood Reporter
The thrill is long gone in Anna, a lifeless and instantly forgettable spy flick whose lead, Sasha Luss, shows zero promise as a movie star.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote