Anon is a noirish sci-fi thriller set in the near future where the human mind records everything through its eyes. It is a society with no privacy but what if the memories can be manipulated?
Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) is a detective who solves crimes by reviewing people's memories that exist in some kind of matrix where the memories are placed and can be accessed.
When an anonymous hacker is suspected of killing some people, Sal figures it is a mysterious woman (Amanda Seyfried) who does not exist in their records as she is off the grid and who can alter the memory files.
The set-up is intriguing and the conflict is incredibly well done, but the pay-off is such a let-down. Has some original ideas that are mostly explored early on in the second half of Anon despite its similarity to a couple of Black Mirror episodes (chiefly The Entire History of You). Not something I'll re-visit, but better than I had expected.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
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