Review of Anomalisa (2015) by Mattyice — 01 Jan 2016

While Anomalisa touches upon really deep and fantastic themes and is shot really well, it does not work as a complete film. The film is a message/theme first and a film second; the two main characters are entirely uninteresting, the plot moves slowly in the first half of the film, and the gratuitous sex and nudity is just creepy and adds minimal to the story.

Charlie Kaufman shows his amazing skill as a writer and film philosopher with Anomalisa's deep themes and great art design, but shows his failure as a director as the film lacks an engaging plot, nor does it have interesting and relatable characters.

I expected much better from Kaufman, and I hope he leaves the directing to others in the future.