movie reviews This film is great entertainment. Beautifully filmed (great aerial shots) and well acted especially by Yvan Attal who was just superb in the role of a nerdy mystery reading accountant type. Marceau does a fine job although you find her a bit bitchy at first. Also the story is not perfect her role is not completely logical but this is a minor thing...There are twists and the final one makes the movie work. In US films the bad guys mostly don't get away with it--you have to go to more cynical European creations to get the ending you want. In fact during the movie I was despairing of a stupid ending which did not happen.This movie is one the great finds I have made on Netflix streaming---some others include "Aura" and lots of others.... You can skip the bad ones you start watching and go on to something else...

tieman64 "Anthony Zimmer" is a conventional romantic thriller and con movie which finds a gang of Russian criminals and law enforcement agents frantically attempting to apprehend master criminal Anthony Zimmer.The film was directed by Jerome Salle, whose style is unimaginative and at times dull. The film was remade by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck as "The Tourist", a much better film. The only thing Salle's film has over Donnersmarck's is the presence of the always stunning Sophia Marceau. She plays Zimmer's love interest.5/10 – Worth no viewings. See "The Tourist" instead, a critically maligned ode to Hitchcock and Stanley Donen.

swooned I had forgotten I wanted to see this film, and while I thought The Tourist has it's good points, that class is awesome, I only wish I knew it was really a remake of Anthony Zimmer. That would have changed everything.Can't use English folk think of good ideas on our own? So many remakes that have far less meaning or solid characters. OK. The Tourist is a funny, and AZ is much more rugged, despite the location. I wish I could compare the sexiness of Sophie to Angelina the other way around, but I have to say Angelina was a natural at wooing poor old Johnny. So powerful. Sophie is a different story, but they sure know how to photograph her.I like the rawness of AZ. A shame this was not my first impression of the story.

MediSin Anthony Zimmer is an average suspension movie, but if you have seen Cypher (http://imdb.com/title/tt0284978), you know how the movie is going to unwind from the first five minutes on. The story is very similar (not to say, in some parts identical), although in Cypher, the main character actually "deleted" his memory, so the entire "Who's the guy?" game actually makes sense.As has been mentioned elsewhere, even when alone, Zimmer doesn't act like himself, and it doesn't really make sense why, unless to lead on the viewer. The movie has a lot of potential, but doesn't go far beyond the average, which is a pity. Sophie Marceau pulls off her part nicely (you don't really see her 40 years, do you?), and tragically outshines everybody else. The characters remain flat and two-dimensional (even the main character...), and the final twist just doesn't come off right (especially since most viewers will have the identity shuffle figured out by now).If you haven't seen Cypher, maybe this movie works for you. If you have seen it, this really isn't a lot of fun, as it gets boring pretty quickly. It gets an average rating for the nice camera work and Sophie Marceau, but I'm sad to say it would probably have scored higher if the producers had directly copied Cypher.