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2025 · action · thriller · revenge

Agent Zero

Directed by Guillaume de Fontenay1h 24m2025
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana, her former secret service unit officer.

Our read · Agent Zero (2025) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a sleek French female assassin revenge thriller in Bourne style.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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If Agent Zero is your film
La Femme Nikita (1990)
French assassin origin story and moral cost
(older and more romantic)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
agent on the run with brutal action
(if you want only female lead focus)
Salt (2010)
ruthless spy executing a revenge mission
(Hollywood scale versus intimate)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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