Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

When peering and sharing is the unashamed norm, sometimes for your own sanity it’s better to stay off the grid, cut all ties and remain completely anonymous.

Everything you see through your eyes is recorded. You can go back within your own memories and relive anything from your birth to the day you proposed to your wife. The police can gain access to your memories and your present perspective – unlimited access. Anything it takes to uncover crimes and unpick mysteries.

But the police have hit a brick wall; there is a serial killer on the loose who leaves no trace. They can alter perspectives, erase and replace filed memories and delete their presence – things that shouldn’t be possible.

Unfortunately for Detective Sal (Clive Owen) and his team, it means that they might as well be chasing a digital ghost.

Anon was an interesting enough movie: Quietly pacing with a good speed of unraveling. The plot was dynamic enough to keep me entertained even though the characters did a whole lot of sitting around.

Though the performances were satisfactory from Owen and Seyfried alike – as well as the rest of the cast – as a lot of the story involved point of view viewership it could be argued that it left little to be explored in the way of acting.

A little annoying factor was that the one screen text was a little small. This may sound pernickety but considering the majority of the movie required an overlay of text – it got to a point where I stopped bothering to read it.

I wouldn’t not recommend this movie to watch, but if you have a whole list to tick off then stick this one close to the bottom. Or better yet, throw it on in the background.