Having hit rock bottom, Anna gets a visit from the KGB, which offers her a way out by training her to become an assassin.
“Luc Besson: Making Assassins Since 1990”. And after Anna, I think the business will come to an end. Let me step back a bit, though… Anna has nothing to offer to the genre. It has nothing to add to the numerous films on assassins out there, neither from a narrative point of view nor from a filmmaking point of view. Actually, from any point of view. The story remains exactly as it was 30 years ago, as does the character, but the film doesn’t. The film deteriorates. It becomes repetitive with less and less to offer while other films such as John Wick (2014) and Atomic Blonde (2017) dominate the critics’ reviews and box office alike.
But this is not why the business is going down. After the Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) fiasco, EuropaCorp took a major blow. Anna was meant to make the company recover, but Besson’s unsubstantial personal shenanigans came out, studios backed down, distribution got axed, and Anna rubbed salt into the already existing, massive wound.
EuropaCorp may not recover from this hit. I just hope Sasha Luss finds the life jacket in that sinking ship as she has been, unfortunately, in both films. She’s a successful international model, and her acting skills have proved to be solid. I wish her all the best as I wish to Besson. I grew up with his films and still believe he has much more to offer to the industry.
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