Anon on
Netflix wasted what initially seemed like a good idea, then it dove into the
archive of all the sci-fi crime drama movies you’ve seen, copied and pasted the
things you loved, and ruined them.
The movie isn’t just a boring waste of time—it’s a total error and something I
wish I could erase from my mind.
Here’s the
concept the plot is based on: in the future, everyone’s eyes aren’t just for
seeing. Humans have been upgraded to record and store clips of what they see.
We’re also connected to a database where we can see details about the people we
look at, access our past recordings, and share what we’ve stored.
When a crime is committed, all the police have to do is access the victim’s
last recordings to see who the perpetrator was. Before we dive deeper into the
plot, let’s dissect this concept.
The concept is
cool, but the plot attached to it is lame. The idea of a future where
everything you see can be recorded isn’t original, and they took a good idea
and made it downright stupid.
The movie steals the “see what I’ve seen” idea from the 2011 episode of Black
Mirror, "The Entire History of You."
Why is it easy to recall which episode it was stolen from? Because, other
than Broadchurch, the only other place I’ve seen the actress Jodie
Whittaker is in that Black Mirror episode.
Why is Jodie Whittaker important, you may ask? Well, she’s playing the 13th
Doctor and the first female incarnation of Doctor Who (my favorite
show of all time). For Whovians like me, I feel like if the writers wanted to
steal an idea, that was a bad place to go. The TV show does 100 times more
justice to this concept than this movie even attempted to.
The plot
attached to this concept is that there are hackers in this world who can hack
your feed and edit your stored information. They can also delete stored data
and erase your entire existence from the database.
Murders are being committed, and the person behind these murders is also a
hacker who’s wiping out traces of their existence from the victims.
The worst part
of this crap is that our lead (Sal, a police officer played by Clive Owen)
walks past one of these hackers (Anon, played by Amanda Seyfried) on his way to
work before heading to a crime scene. At the scene, while accessing the
victim’s feed, they notice it’s been hacked.
They decide they must track down this hacker. There are many hackers who could
have been guilty of this crime, but for reasons they didn’t bother to explain
or educate us on, they focus only on Anon.
The actors
didn’t even bother to deliver any form of class or professionalism in their
performances, so why should you bother seeing this movie?
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