Anon

It's a world where everybody's POV is being recorded and accessed through a vast database called The Ether. Solving crimes has become easy for police investigator Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) until a series of killings where all the recordings have been hacked and corrupted. Charles Gattis (Colm Feore) is his supervisor. Suspicion falls on a mysterious woman (Amanda Seyfried) who is able to erase her image from the database. This is pure old fashion sci-fi. It's been stripped down. There are no car chases. Even the sets are unadorned which makes sense when one's vision can be altered anyways. This is reminiscent of reading an old sci-fi story. It's a fascinating world but only for true sci-fi fans. It's a black and white movie in a world of color. The thrills are drained from it but one can see it. There is one section where Sal's vision is being constantly corrupted which could have been a great CGI action sequence. Although I wouldn't likely to accept it since the audience knows it to be a fake. This will divide the audience between those who like old sci-fi stories from those who like action sci-fi.

Netflix original sci fi movie, you know what that means, a dark bleak future ahead, also, its a great sci fi flick of things to come... Stars Clive Owen as Sal, a cop in a future where, crime is literally played out for you in front of your eyes. Its a 1984 type future, where Big Brother is watching you constantly and is also looking through your very own eyes, which means, privacy is a thing of the past totally. Its a Google world, everywhere you look, each face, has a pop up along with it giving stats like a facebook page, look at a plant a pop up tells you what it is, and of course, memories... those are recorded for later viewing. So Sal gets a case where someone gets a bullet through the center of the head, and the memories show... ooops, the killer, has hacked the brain, and all the cops can see, as well as all the victim can see through their own vision balls, is the killer's Point of View. Retracing the victims steps they find out he was a naughty boy and needed some memories erased, yup your brain is a computer, we are in the matrix, and he contacted a person who could do such tasks, a person that shouldnt exist, an anon... anonymous, get it get it?? And it just so happens Sal, passed a rather attractive one on the way to the crime scene, she, only known as the girl is played by Amanda Seyfried becomes the focus of the investigation, because well she didnt have a pop up as she walked by, which shouldn't happen, and then when Sal goes back to review it, whoops...file not found. Is she the key??? I thought it was pretty awesome. I liked how instead of the Blade Runner type holo advertisements, and everything was a filthy mess, to just seeing them in your own head, and the outside world looked nice, as long as you go into your brains personal settings and turn pop up ads off. A paranoid thriller that brings new meaning to the phrase "I can't believe my eyes", because you can't! Filmbufftim on FB.

If Clive Owen and Dystopian futures playing off of the Ghost in the Shell-like concept of hacking coming together sound like a good idea, then the premise of this film might be right up your alley. As a fan of both concepts of futurist cinema, the premise is all there, and with its slow-moving plot, surreal POV camera work that is painfully slow and characters unable to use their brains, the execution leaves much to be desired while its portrayal of women could be considered contemptuous. Clive Owen plays a detective that works in a criminal system that can see everything and recall everything because it's recorded. This big brother concept takes a twist by placing the recording device in the eyes of its people, and it is by hacking the eyes and recordings in people's minds that a string of murders take place while concealing the identity of the killer - who imposes their own vision over the senses of those they kill. As the main character says, this brings the police back to a genuine "who done it". If the story followed a "who done it plot", then this wouldn't be too bad, but the police seem to be incapable of using basic forensics, which leads to over an hour of sitting around tables while staring off into space, smoking, drinking and shagging hookers instead. On a visual level, the stark environments are desaturated even further in editing, adding to the underlying tension of the film. Sets are concrete, institutionalized and imposing structures, which could have been symbolic but aren't fully realized within the plot. Societal regression might even be considered as a visual element considering the nostalgia that persists in characters' near-constant smoking and drinking in suits cut in a style that is reminiscent of the 50's. Sadly, there is barely a woman in the film who isn't there to take of their clothes and spread their legs. It might be considered a shame that women couldn't find a role in in this movie without having to have sex for it. The lynch pin for psychological thrillers of this kind could be said to be in the pondering of greater societal questions. In this case there is some thought to the impact of current technology and the implications of cybernetics and transparency that isn't without merit, though as a story there isn't a grand reveal or a strong conclusion.

At its best (the concept) it's a second rate Black Mirror episode. At its worst (the entire runtime) it's an uninteresting lull that simply passes by without offending. It's not bad; it's just never good either; it's simply okay.

Really? I don't even know why I watched it untill the end. So bad.... I want my hour and a half, Netflix. Damn you.

This movie doesnt deserve to have under 6 stars compared to many other movies, but doesn't deserve to get much more. If this movie came out 10 years ago it might have been a lot more interesting. It kind of feel like they've taken the computer game watchdogs and a black mirror episode(the entire history of you) and paired them together to make a love child that people will easily forget. I hope the best for the film and I don't regret watching it.

Starts of well and is a believable future we could be heading towards, but the pace stays consistent the whole way through and drags on. The character archs are 2 dimensional and you find yourself not invested in them or the story. It's not a "I want those hours of my life back" movie but it's nothing I would recommend as a must watch.

Despite great actors, special effect and photography, Anon lack of depth. The subject of the importance of privacy is too obvious. It seems they had a great pitch but didn't take time for a great script. It's disappointing because it could have been a great movie.

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Good movie!