Anon

Name: Anon
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: May 4, 2018
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Afiya Bennett, Amanda Seyfried, Clive Owen, Colm Feore, Ethan Tavares

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): May 4, 2018 | TV-MA

Starring: Afiya Bennett, Amanda Seyfried, Clive Owen, Colm Feore, Ethan Tavares, Iddo Goldberg, James Tam, Jeffrey Men, Joe Pingue, Jonathan Potts, Mark O'Brien, Morgan Allen, Rachel Roberts, Sebastian Pigott, Sonya Walger, Toyin Ishola

Summary: Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) is a detective in a world with no privacy, ignorance, or anonymity; where everyone’s lives are transparent, traceable, and recorded by the authorities; where crime almost ceases to exist. But in trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Frieland stumbles on a young woman known only as the Girl (AmandaSal Frieland (Clive Owen) is a detective in a world with no privacy, ignorance, or anonymity; where everyone’s lives are transparent, traceable, and recorded by the authorities; where crime almost ceases to exist. But in trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Frieland stumbles on a young woman known only as the Girl (Amanda Seyfried). She has no identity, no history and is invisible to the cops. Sal realizes this may not be the end of crime, but the beginning.… Expand

Director: Andrew Niccol

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 100 min

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Blake Goble

May 7, 2018

While the film’s final thesis is a Facebook post with typos at best (delete your accounts, and so on), Niccol is still terrific when he’s breaking down rules, questioning protocol, and testing new ideas. Read full review

Richard Roeper

May 4, 2018

I can’t tell you I bought every last twist and turn in the final act, but thanks to Niccol’s creative direction and the offbeat but effective chemistry between Owen’s emotionally damaged Sal and Seyfried’s is-she-hero-or-villain mystery woman, Anon kept me in its grips throughout. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

May 4, 2018

The story works well enough in its own moodily familiar way, but it’s not only the movie’s palette that’s stylishly leached of color: Its main characters’ backstories feel perfunctory, the dialogue leans heavy on exposition and hard-boiled cliché, and even Owen looks worn down. Read full review

Alex Godfrey

May 8, 2018

There is some freaky fun here. Niccol’s food for thought leaves a lingering taste. Read full review

Empire James Dyer

May 14, 2018

More potent as a cautionary tale than future noir, Anon’s digital dystopia certainly gets a Like, even if it doesn’t quite warrant a Share. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 4, 2018

Visually striking, thought-provoking yet emotionally drained, Anon is just too empty to make one care. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

May 3, 2018

The premise is smart, the ingredients classy and the overall look stylish. But Niccol’s paranoid anxieties about the totalitarian dangers of cyberspace feel oddly glib and dated, light on thrills or narrative logic. Read full review

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TeXFiles

Oct 15, 2019

Very deep movie not everyone can grasp but if you are a technical person tgen this movie is really riveting

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xcontractx

May 13, 2018

One of the best scifi movies this year, it's more a cerebral scifi thriller, but it asks a lot of questions about privacy and our current "extremely online" culture that not a lot are asking. What would it be like to have every waking moment recorded and controlled? You can't even believeOne of the best scifi movies this year, it's more a cerebral scifi thriller, but it asks a lot of questions about privacy and our current "extremely online" culture that not a lot are asking. What would it be like to have every waking moment recorded and controlled? You can't even believe that which you see, so how do you know what it true and isn't true? The movie doesn't answer that, but at least it's asking those questions. Smartly written, smartly shot, very well acted, and the set is amazing.

It's more scifi art than anything else, and I think there really needs to be fewer "block buster" scifi movies, and more artistic pieces that ask tough questions.… Expand

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truerock

Oct 25, 2022

Anon is a another take on how social media and the internet will potentially shape our lives of the future.

The film has a sophisticated style that doesn't fit any go-to genre to punch a large audience segment's buttons. It does provide an interesting point of view of a relevant topic.

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MedusaMadman77

May 12, 2018

So do you remember the Clive Owen film, Shoot 'Em Up? It was a film with corny dialogue and pretty cool action. Anon is exactly like that film, except replace all the cool action with people sitting & staring (into cyberspace).

I also look forward to an extensive breakdown of the plotSo do you remember the Clive Owen film, Shoot 'Em Up? It was a film with corny dialogue and pretty cool action. Anon is exactly like that film, except replace all the cool action with people sitting & staring (into cyberspace).

I also look forward to an extensive breakdown of the plot holes. Worth a watch for the cinematography, but hedge your expectations.… Expand

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Iamcritical86

Mar 18, 2021

Slow. Weak. Boring. As much as I tried, I couldn't get into this movie. I don't know how it didn't get more negative reviews.

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Mauro_Lanari

Jun 22, 2019

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Once upon a time there was anonymity, or at least so they made us believe. With the IoT the lie collapsed and we discovered ourselves living in Bentham's Panopticon. Foucault was already interested in such a death of privacy in his "Discipline and Punish" (1975) and since then(Mauro Lanari)
Once upon a time there was anonymity, or at least so they made us believe. With the IoT the lie collapsed and we discovered ourselves living in Bentham's Panopticon. Foucault was already interested in such a death of privacy in his "Discipline and Punish" (1975) and since then there have been countless films and TV series ("Black Mirror") on this subject. "Anon" is the last in order of time, and with it Niccol adds only logical gaps and a narcoleptic thriller.… Expand

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pleitch

May 20, 2018

Do yourself a favour and don't watch this movie.

The movie is dull, wooden, colourless and very slow. This movie a surprisingly poor given the calibre of actors. This is less a suspenseful thriller, more like boredom incarnate. The only crime in this crime drama is taking an unoriginalDo yourself a favour and don't watch this movie.

The movie is dull, wooden, colourless and very slow. This movie a surprisingly poor given the calibre of actors. This is less a suspenseful thriller, more like boredom incarnate. The only crime in this crime drama is taking an unoriginal idea and then torturing it by stretching it out until it dies. Instead of a roller coaster, the poor viewer is taken on shopping mall kid's ride that seems to take hours to not go anywhere, yet is visually jarring enough to make you nauseous. Given the movie is so dull, it does the only "jump-the-shark" thing it can and shows lots of skin, even though there is no apparent benefit to the storyline.

The music score was repetitive, dull, and added even more boredom. The visuals give you a headache. They lack any realistic "user experience". By realistic, I mean in most other sci-fi the technology interface is believable. Watch Minority report, Black Mirror or other future-based movies and think "this is so realistic I can see it happening". Watch Anon and you think this isn't practical, isn't intuitive and only adds massive holes into the already dull plot.… Expand

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