Anna is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Far too much of the film is made up of explaining incredibly obvious “twists” through flashbacks. Moreover, Anna’s character development is too jumpy and clunky. Even Helen Mirren’s contributions are underwhelming. More generally, one has to wonder how long it will be until we get a throughly enjoyable cinematic female led soviet oriented spy thriller. Between Anna, Red Sparrow and Atomic Blonde there have been too many failures. A return to Le Carrian style thrillers might be warranted, with the Little Drummer Girl offering a good example from the land of TV.

I really loved this femme fatale. But perhaps there's nothing really to compare it to recently. I hated Miss Bala. Liked Nikita. Loved this movie. I felt like they really brought the right amount of empathy with her character and believable training and smarts. You start to really love the character and hope she pulls through. The only thing that took away from it were the 4 to 6 flashbacks. It made it a bit too comedic- it felt like Ocean's 11. And really took away from the plot twists. Overall, though I really loved the movie, lovable characters, believable relationships, and entertaining action with just the right amount of sexiness.

The action is pretty good but there is not enough of it. There were way to many time jumps and the movie was too long overall.

I wish someone had told me to not waste my time or money before watching this. Terrible on every possible level.

Unlike one of the previous commenters I thought this was a pretty fresh take on the cold war spy thrillers. It's like a John Wick inspired John Le Carre production with a distractingly beautiful lead. It's what Atomic Blonde could have been with a more coherent script. Luc Besson will never be one of the highly esteemed writers/directors because he's niched himself in the action/thriller franchise but within that franchise this is a freaking masterpiece.