DowntonR1
Intriguing, so I stayed with it, but pretty much unintelligible storyline interspersed with slightly lame fight sequences.
By the end, you might think, was it worth staying with?
Noel Clarke the actor can't complain, cos he directed and co wrote it.
johnrgreen
A comic book fantasy SF film that has derived its ideas almost whole(sale) from Philip K Dick.Complete with backwards plot and Russian bad-skis plus futuristic techno and brothels and a phoned-in performance from Brian Cox.Did I mention the constant ,repetitive fight scenes? So many and so exactly the same.Nobody gets hurt and bullets almost never hit the targets.It looked like a film school effort at best.
siderite
The storyline was not perfect, but it was not the problem, instead it was the script. Having the lead character being also the director probably didn't help either.You see, The Anomaly is a sort of a Memento thing. A man wakes up in strange circumstances not remembering how he got there. He fights Eatern European mafia, the police, kidnaps kids and psychotic doctors, all the time not knowing what is happening to him. He has to piece it all together and find a way to escape his nightmare.Unfortunately, the confusing moments of the character are also confusing for the viewer, with the amateurish writing spoiling things further. I really like the people in the cast: Noel Clarke of Doctor Who and Prodigy's Invaders Must Die fame, Ian Somerhalder from Vampire Diaries, Brian Cox, Alexis Knapp, even Chris Hemsworth's brother. The props and effects were also OK. Too bad everything was not properly put together.Bottom line: felt like a bad Doctor Who episode, without Doctor Who. The cast did decent, but in the end the writing and probably directing messed it all up. Can be entertaining and it is more original that most movies lately, though.
Brain Paladin
This film has an interesting premise when you look back at it. Ryan only has 10 minutes to wake up and do anything before falling into someone else. What isn't clear until the end of the movie is that these time increments are not ALWAYS a year apart. The first time it happens he wakes up on June 7th a year later. This seemed interesting. The problem is that throughout the movie the increment between awakenings varies. Not a problem but there's no hint of how much time has passed and it leaves the viewer assuming each gap was as long as the first gap. Needless to say it isn't.As a "punchy punchy fighty fighty" film I thought it was OK. It's not the frantic perfection that is say a Eastern Martial Arts film staring Jet Li or Tony Jaa or Jackie Chan but the fights felt visceral, even if the director did love the dance-movie-camera-shake-on-impact. The fights felt realistic enough.I would have liked to have seen the writing reworked. The conclusion was satisfying but the overall premise of the antagonists is similar to the hit UK show Utopia. Or it could have been had they reworked their motivations to make it a little more clear.
AD
