Anon (2018)

In a future world of Brutalist architecture, where cybernetic eye implants connect everyone to a universal network and a visual record of every experience is uploaded to the cloud, police solve crimes by replaying personal video feeds to determine who was responsible.A sudden outbreak of seemingly unconnected murders throws the entire system into chaos, as authorities cannot find a single video of the culprit. It seems that in a world where no identity is hidden, someone has somehow managed to become... ANON!I rate Anon at 23.31 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a twisty 7/10 on IMDB.

This movie has totally unessesary.. And very graphic sex scenes that could have been avoided all together. Totally ruined the movie. Ok the guy chose to have sex with a prostitute as an excuse to draw out a hacker. As if that wasnt a terrible enough tactic, they have to go and show the bordering on hard core porn scene of how he played it out. They could have atleast merely suggested it, but now we have to endure this scene which he thinks back on again latet in the movie where the whole thing repeats again just to refresh our memories. Later you find that the hacker just so happens to be a woman, and guess what? They end up having sex in yet another very graphic scene. Sorry this is not a movie

I don't care what others think this film is beautiful to look at . And probably one of the best performances Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried has had since CHLOE. Andrew Niccol did it this time for sure this is his cinematography yet. In Time I thought was OK but the look of the film was pretty basic. This film has some sexy atmosphere and some super nice apartment buildings . The films takes place in the distant future and is on time with whats happening now. Yes we have the right to give up our privacy now . But in this film everyone has proxy's and those proxy's can be traced back to anything you do. Anon basically has avoided this system somehow . And is resistant and works as a undercover eraser for clients. So in the film authorities want apprehend her for the deaths of her clients . And to figure out how she is able to avoid the system and not have a known identity. The mysterious young woman is then submerged into a web of deceit and drama. I think the film is bold and original and I am surprised it went straight to Netflix with all the current reboots and irrelevant sequel that are out there in Hollywood. The only thing that I didn't like was the ending . I felt like there could have been a deeper explanation for everything. Instead they just kinda through it all in one thing . With such a deep philosophical story I think the ending could have been more elevated . I really hope that we can see more things like this in the future in the movie theater.

Anon features a world similar to ours, where personal information has become commodified, and everyone has an internet lens in their eyes, as well as processors in their mind, like the anime Ghost in the Shell. As technology becomes more and more advanced, it's hard not to believe that at some point tech won't merge with the human body in some way that seems scary to those of us who grew up before the internet. Anon features a great concept of hackers being able to manipulate people's personal tech, again, much like Ghost in the Shell, and commit various crimes by making themselves blind from the views of others. The way the technology and world is presented is very skillful, without tons of exposition, just allowing you the viewer to learn about the world shown in the way a movie should educate the viewer: by showing and not telling. Thankfully, there's no scene where some technician explains how the eye-lens and brain-tech works. Nobody in that world would look that up, how often do you look up how your microwave works? Do you even really know how it does, to an intimate level? Most sci-fi makes the mistake of having the characters explain things too much for the benefit of the audience in un-natural conversations. Anon's actual mystery component isn't stunning or extremely astounding, but it's worth a watch for the great performances, and how the future-tech intelligently figures into the story, and how it's presented. A solid watch.