Review of Anon (2018) by Pleitch — 19 May 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 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.
This review of Anon (2018) was written by Pleitch on 19 May 2018.
Anon has generally received mixed reviews.
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