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AKA is a TV Movie, WTH???

Hollywood should take notes and learn a lot from this film. This is a low budget so the special effect is basic. The fight choreography is very simple but excellently executed, but I'll elaborate further in the next paragraph. Soundtrack didn't ruin the film.

The fight or action scene was surprisingly old school and excellently timed. The best things about the fight scenes are how effective and good the timings and movements were well planned and make sense as if it was directed by a martial artist coach for a marine or army.

The actors act good, the main character is a bit too stoic but he was supposed to have an air of mystery. And then the direction of the director was very enjoyable. Almost like music video but with a specific street wise style.

And in conclusion, this is one of the most enjoyable low budgeted action movie. The storyline might not win any award, but if you're looking for a good entertaining action movie, you'll like this.

I chanced upon this French crime-action-thriller on Netflix and was totally taken aback by the planning and execution of it's action scenes, though it is not a genre that I particularly enjoy.

Alban Lenoir, the co-writer & lead actor of the film looks ultra-skilled and effortless in both hand-to-hand combat and close range shooting scenes.

There is enough blood and gore in the movie, but still the movie appears realistic. Even though the body count is high, the act in itself is never glorified.

Amidst all the blazing guns and bullet wounds on his body, Alban Lenoir's Adam Franco, the protagonist turns out to be quite headstrong in protecting young children, which adds the required humanity angle to the film.

The story unfolds at a relatively slower rate, but it's never boring. Your 122 minutes are well taken care of.

First the film is in French, so if you speak french or don't mind reading subtitles it's a solid choice.

It's kind of a Jason Bourne / Extraction type film, but done in a more realistic manner. Magazines aren't always magically full, the bad guys don't die from one shot while the good guys get shot 5 times and keep fighting, and while the hero is heroic, he's not completely impervious to the bad guys like a lot of action movies portray heroes.

Alban Lenoir does a great job being a badass and doesn't ruin the movie trying to look cool or have some stupid catch phrase that makes it cheesy. I definitely would watch another movie where he's the hero.

The action is really great, the sets are good, and you can stay immersed in the story pretty easily. The story is good and has a couple twists, but there's a couple of predictable times as well which was a little disappointing.

The fight scenes and shootouts are really good, the close quarter fighting is stellar but some of the long range shooting is not as good as it could have been. Hero not having enough cover, the missed shots causing little explosions, etc...

Overall a really solid action movie that won't disappoint you, If it were in English (I don't mean dubbed), I think more people would be talking about it.

AKA (2023 release from France; 118 min) brings the story of Adam Franco, an undercover special opps guy who is afraid of nothing or nobody. The French Minister of the Interior's chief of staff orders Franco to infiltrate a criminal gang in order to track down the whereabouts of a bombing suspect.... At this point we are less than 10 minutes into the movie.

Couple of comments: this is the feature length directing debut of Morgan Dalibert, previously a well-known cinematographer. Dalibert co-wrote the script along with Alban Lenoir, the erstwhile stunt man-turned-actor who plays the role of Adam Franco. These two know each other well, having collaborated on "Lost Bullet". Here they bring a gritty crime drama. I must admit that based on the film's opening sequence, I was expecting something more glamorous, but once the story really got goin, I found myself fully invested. Let me be very clear, tough: this is a very violent movie, and the body count is off the chart, so if that is not your thing, please find something else to watch. Eric Cantona alert! Yes, the French soccer star from the 1990s who played for Manchester United for 5 years, has continued to build a very nice acting career after retiring from football. Here he plays the head of the criminal gang, one of the pivotal roles in this film. Bottom line: my expectations were surpassed with this movie, and these 2 hours just flew by.

AKA started streaming on Netflix just last weekend, and I watched it last night. If you like a crime drama that is gritty and violent, yet that is also wildly entertaining with solid performances all around, I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.

Sincerely, I liked the first ten minutes and the last third of this thriller about a terrorism organization. You have to pay attention to understand what's really going on. It's not a new story at all but it is solid enough to spend an entertaining Saturday evening.

There are good combats but also shooting scenes with a great performance of the main agent. There were many turns and twists on a certain emotional level. Then the cinematography was well done, especially the the first pictures in Lybia.

If you like this kind of terrorist movies check out American Assassin, the top Bin Laden thriller Zero Dark Thirty or all the Bourne Identity movies.

Rating: 6/10.

I always say this about movies: Don't expect something real, it's a movie, it has to be fiction.

The plot is not one of the best, it has some holes, but the story is good and at times it can surprise. Naturally these kinds of movies are completely fantasy with things impossible to happen and that makes some people furious. If you don't mind that, then this will be a good movie for you.

Acting Ok, at first I thought the main actor was very hard and without emotions, but then I understood why.

The story itself is good, there are points that lose their meaning, I won't go into details so as not to spoil your experience. But if you like the style of the film you will like it.

The action scenes are ok too. I think John Wick and Atomic Blonde taught a lot of studios how to make an action movie.

It won't be the best action movie you'll ever see, but it's good!

Enjoy!

FLP.

I've always read imdb user reviews before, and this is my first time reviewing a movie, because this French movie AKA on Netflix surely deserves a review (there's none yet at the time of my writing).

AKA is like a combination of some well produced movies that come to mind such as the Bourne series, Taken, Nobody, John Wick, Heat etc. Heroes who should just have been left alone. Heroes with good souls who have to decide who to protect, whose orders to follow, and what to fight for.

There's a lot of action, fighting & shooting. But these are not the mindless kind of fighting. The script is not bad with unexpected stories and characters. The action hero is played by a French actor Alban Lenoir I have never heard of, who manages to play the role just as well as Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, or Keanu Reeves would have played had they acted in this movie.

I give it 9/10. If I were the movie editor, some scenes could have been cut out and were not necessary, to reach a wider audience. Other than that, most of the characters were well played; the action scenes were done very well; the script was clever with an appropriate overlay of effective music soundtrack.

Honestly surprised by how good this movie was. I watched it with a low expectation, so just pretend that you have not read my review, don't know anything about this movie, and watch it with no expectation or idea about the movie.

AKA sees the character of Alban Lenoir complete his mythology after Lost Bullet (2020) and Lost Bullet 2 (2022). Here, he joins a gang led by Éric Cantona, made up of more or less broken arms and incompetents, as part of an infiltration process that makes this an investigative crime film with espionage elements at stake in the French services' investigation.

Compared with the two Lost Bullet films (it's inevitable to compare AKA with these), all three of which were directed and co-written by Alban Lenoir: he creates a mythology of action heroes with brawn and brains, even ethics, in a "low-tech" style, i.e. Without excessive digital technology. In comparison, AKA seems a little clumsy and less dramatic than Lost Bullet.

Once again, it's worth noting that the female characters aren't just a foil; they hold the key to the dramatic arc.

The overall dramatic line also lends a certain interest in the film, in which our hero, Alban Lenoir, finds himself (re)involved in a battle between things he never imagined and is therefore forced to revise his bearings: Eric Cantona's child, for example.

Betrayal was the mechanic of two Lost Bullet films; it is again in this one, which fuels the twists and turns and keeps the viewer captivated over time.

Some might want to check their testosterone levels when writing reviews and then go over their words again. AKA is a bad movie in every way, with the quality of a video game with Blood Patches in the shootouts. There is shooting for all it's worth, the bad guys drop like flies, and the hero is only minimally injured. And even if you swallow this toad, it shows once again that French action movies often fail because of two things. First, they have no humor at all, and second, the actors are worse than bad. Taciturn cynics with their hearts in the right place might save a small child, but not an entire film that is too long, too cheap and miserably acted.

The rating (6.7) doesn't justify this beautiful movie.

Take Jason Bourne and John wick and add alot of emotions and drama and realness.

The action is very raw, the suspense keeps you on the edge from start to finish, some twists here and there and the performances are the real treat here.

Specially from the main character. How he is Introduced and where he gets at the end of movie is understandable. Unlike many big action/thriller (big budget) movies, you actually understand every characters decision making. Even those who don't get much time for character development.

For a Netflix movie, it can't get much better. We need more of this Netflix. Budget well spent.

Writer/director Morgan S. Dalibert made this enjoyable French action movie. Well it is enjoyable to watch if you're not too annoyed by a character that can take out an entire army of bandits by himself. Because co-writer/actor Alban Lenoir is playing that character, tough as nails, able to take somebody out by one sucker punch, and there's also nothing wrong with his aiming skills either as every bullet ends up in the skull of a criminal. It's of course all over the top but so are most of the movies in this genre. If you want action then this is a movie for you. No time to rest in this movie, it's action scene after action scene, but they're well choreographed and shot. Eric Cantona, once an immensely popular French footballer (or soccer for the Americans) plays the top boss in AKA. Besides being great at football he knows how to act as well. He's always been tough in sports so this role was a good one for him. I will never score a movie in this genre with more than a seven as it's over the top and not very believable, but it's entertaining, and that's the most important thing with these kind of movies.

Early in the film, warlord Moktar Al Tayeb's wife and child is gunned down. Moktar is believed to be responsible for a terrorist attack on a hotel. Adam Franco (Alban Lenoir) is a special ops agent who is assigned to infiltrate Victor Pastore's clan, and to gain his trust. Victor is a friend of Moktar's and getting close to him will get Adam closer to Moktar.

Impressed by his physical strength, Victor appoints Adam bodyguard to his step-son Jonathan. With Jonathan getting very little attention from his family, he instantly bonds with Adam. There's just something special about a tough guy showing compassion for a child that stirs the senses.

As tension rises between Victor's clan and a rival gang lead by Amet, the action intensifies. The action choreography is very good and Alban Lenoire is excellent as Adam (and he is so darn sexy too!!). The fight scenes are fast and brutal. There's an interesting twist regarding Moktar during the finale.

'AKA' is a fast-paced action film that is sure to satisfy action buffs.

This action movie stars Alban Lenoir, the first French actor since Jean Paul Belmondo to play bad ass characters; except that Jean Paul Belmondo was a confirmed actor, one of the greatest French actor ever, which is not the case of Alban Lenoir, who is closer to Jason Statham or JCVD than Belmondo. OK, Lenoir made a terrific performance back in 2015 in UN FRANCAIS, a so powerful, bitter, gritty French film. I can already say, predict that Lenoir will never do better in the future. When I think that next year, he will play in the sequel of his 2015 other film ANTIGANG - pure garbage - and also in - Oh My God, I can hardly believe it - a remake of Henri George Clouzot's WAGES OF FEAR, it self already remade by the genius William Friedkin.... When I think in Alban Lenoir in Yves Montand or Bruno Cremer's roles...."Wages of fear" for me and the audiences.... So, at last - sorry - concerning this one, I expected far worse, precisely because of Lenoir's presence, but I was rather satisfied with the result; good directing, production design, but a story not flawless at all, overall predictable and a cheesy ending for my taste. An ending that could preview a sequel. Oh my God!!!! But with Alban Lenoir, remember him in BALLE PERDUE 1 and 2 craps, also for Netflix....

After serving French government in a dangerous mission in Tunisia, undercover agent Adam Franco (Alban Lenoir) is assigned by his boss Kruger (Thibault de Montalembert) to eliminate the Sudanese terrorist Moktar Al Tayed (Kevin Layne). Minister Marconnet (Philippe Résimont), who commands Kruger, tells that Tayed is the responsible for the terrorist attack to the Etoile Hotel with several casualties. Adam shall infiltrate in the gang of Victor Pastore (Éric Cantona), who has connections with Tayed. Adam befriends Pastore's stepson Jonathan "Joe" (Noé Chabbat) and gets closer to the gangster Pee Wee (Saïdou Camara), who is friend of Tayed. He protects the fellow gangsters in a heist, when they are attacked by the gang of Pastore's rival, the Egyptian Amet (Igor Kovalsky). But when Joe is kidnapped by Amet and his men and Pastore refuses to pay the ransom, Adam decides to forget his mission and retrieve the boy. But soon he learns that nothing is as it seems to be.

"AKA" (2023) is an engaging French action movie by Netflix, where surprisingly the badass is neither woman of black, but the French Alban Lenoir. The plot is not original, since there are many movies with this type of storyline, but it is worthwhile watching for fans of action, crime and conspiracy movies. The action scenes are great, with shootouts and fights. Alban Lenoir fits well to the lead character and the conclusion is great. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Agente Infiltrado" ("Infiltrated Agent")

I'm a sucker for realism. And there's some solid realistic action scenes in this movie. Ok, he takes much More punishment than a normal human Being should take. Fair. But some of the shooting scenes are excellent in terms of realism. Also some of the hand to hand combat is excellent. He probably should be Dead about 10-15 times in this movie (I didn't really count). It's unrealistic in terms of how much he can take, but that's basically every action hero movie. But the rest is good.. it's also a big gritty which I like, it's not polished.

It's an okay action movie. And rated as such. It's not rated as a drama movie. It's not very deep, and that's kind of the point of all action movies, they're made to entertain and not challenge The mind or the Soul. And this movie is certainly entertaining enough, and I wouldn't mind sequels as long as the quality doesn't drop.

AKA French action movie on Netflix created by the team Lost Bullet. The story follows an undercover agent who must face an emotional test when he infiltrates a gang of criminals and unexpectedly forms a close bond with the boss's son.

This is an action-drama movie with well-written plot details that successfully blend moral principles with the role of a killer spy. Despite Alban Lenoir not having a traditionally handsome appearance, his acting skills in this movie are much more impressive compared to his previous work in "Lost Bullet." His intense solo action scenes are still present even though the movie emphasizes more on the drama aspect. Overall, this is a highly recommended streaming movie that should not be missed.

AKA is the latest Netflix original release, and this time we go to france for this one. Alban Lenoir plays Adam. A member of the special ops. That gets caught up in gang related dealings. The clients son he bonds with and it seems like the two could become father and son since he was more interesting in him than the parents. The one big strength this movie had was its action scenes. There were enough of them to keep me entertained and they were coreographed well. As for the rest of the movie some bits were a little here and there but the script was alright. Overall AKA was a pretty decent movie for what it was, with a good cast.

Dalibert is no stranger to this genre of action film. He could have taken the easy route and strung together a series of action tropes to move things along. He knows how to do it. He has done it before. And well. But this time he rolled the dice on a much harder bet. This time he teased out the characterizations to keep the viewer hooked. This is most definitely NOT some sort of clever hodge-podge of different movies. The closest analog is MAN ON FIRE 2004, which also relies heavily on the interaction between a hardened killer and a young boy. This may not be a film for everyone, but the more time you spend with it, the more interesting it gets. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

AKA (2023) French film staring Eric Cantona, yes that Eric Cantona plays a gangland boss Victor

Undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate with the principal aim of immobilising a terrorist plot. I think that's about it. Oh yes he befriends the drug lords (Cantona) young son.

The undercover cop is as hard as nails, taking shots and machete blows to the body on numerous occasions, these French are hard.

Lots of "call of duty" style shoot em ups, with head shots a plenty and brain spattering here there and everywhere.

That said it is quite tense, and to quote Whitney Houston "I believe that children are our future" what the film and you'll know what I mean.

Ps Eric Cantona is pretty good, watch it in French to get his full on Gallic accent and not a badly dubbed English accent. Its an implausible 6/10.

Had to get through this total garbage after 2 starts previous led to me and partner stooping.

What has early scenes in "caves" got to do with later ones in Parisian settings ?

Halfway thru, 3/4 way thru still no idea what's going on. Hopeless rediculous pointless movie. A great depiction of why the French movie industry is totally lost. 0 out of 10 seriously don't bother. Still watching "The end" more confused than ever but thankfully have "given up" Real Garbage" Had to get through this total garbage after 2 starts previous led to me and partner stooping.

What has early scenes in "caves" got to do with later ones in Parisian settings ?

Halfway thru, 3/4 way thru still no idea what's going on. Hopeless rediculous pointless movie. A great depiction of why the French movie industry is totally lost. 0 out of 10 seriously don't bother. Still watching "The end" more confused than ever but thankfully have "given up" Real Garbage" Had to get through this total garbage after 2 starts previous led to me and partner stooping.

What has early scenes in "caves" got to do with later ones in Parisian settings ?

Halfway thru, 3/4 way thru still no idea what's going on. Hopeless rediculous pointless movie. A great depiction of why the French movie industry is totally lost. 0 out of 10 seriously don't bother. Still watching "The end" more confused than ever but thankfully have "given up" Real Garbage"

Had to get through this total garbage after 2 starts previous led to me and partner stooping.

What has early scenes in "caves" got to do with later ones in Parisian settings ?

Halfway thru, 3/4 way thru still no idea what's going on. Hopeless rediculous pointless movie. A great depiction of why the French movie industry is totally lost. 0 out of 10 seriously don't bother. Still watching "The end" more confused than ever but thankfully have "given up" Real Garbage"