The Anomaly (2014)

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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.

I would begrudge the time to write a review, but when I have to abandon a movie - I have time I might otherwise have wasted watching it!The acting lacked commitment, and frankly lacked talent too. The story-line, as far as I got, was uninvolving and failed to suspend my disbelief, or entertain me. The action scenes plainly lacked budget, but also showed little imagination. The cinematography was non-existent, and why did they film almost every single conversation at 45degrees over the shoulder - it was like watching the regional news. The fights were badly edited, poorly shot, and suffered terrible choreography - you could see people trying to find their next positions, awkwardly. There was simply no sense of energy or realism to them.Now I would say, they should have looked at the fights in the Matrix, amongst a great many others... However, they clearly did look! They copied ideas, moves and scenes from all sorts of other films, but failed to honour any of them in the process

I was rather pleased with this movie, I had not heard of it before, but it did keep my attention. To be fair about 1/3 of the way through I did get a bit tired of them repeating the same Groundhog Day type effect, but it wasn't too bad. Other than that I'd say this movie was worth watching just for the main actress alone despite the little we saw of her (by that I mean time on the screen).The cast did a very good job, I never felt like anyone was reaching or out of place. The futuristic backdrops were well placed and added a nice touch to the movie. Basically it's Source Code on a lower budget. If you're looking for a sci-fi that you may have passed up before, give this one a shot, it may please you. I'm happy to have seen it.

I have seen a lot of indie movies. And seen a lot of high budget movies that are bad as well. And this movie is totally watchable in my opinion.No it is not a great movie by any means. The acting is "good". meaning it could have been better, but it was acceptable throughout the movie...The problem with this movie is how it is telling it's story. This kind of movie has the "it had great potential" but unfortunately has it's flaws.When you watch this, you will be asking yourself a lot of questions, like how or why.. And at the end, you feel like there is huge plot hole. I would love to give some examples, but i really want you to watch the movie yourself, and fill in the blanks yourself."Should i watch this movie?" : YES. "Is the story good?" : YES, but lacks explanation.