So close to amazing, but scuppered by a lead who either can't act or is one of those models/singers etc who are too scared to act badly and so underplay everything to the point of not acting at all. This charisma vacuum is mostly compensated for by some solid supporting performances (especially Mirren having fun on just the right side of ham), an energetic time-jumping narrative and some great action. Unfortunately, it spends too much time on Anna and too much time in general (almost two hours) - if you're going to have a blank-slate protagonist played robotically throughout, you need to strip the movie down to the bare essentials and have more than two action sequences.
Not up there with Nikita, Leon or even Lucy, but I'd probably watch this again before any of the John Wicks.
Rating: Good
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