It’s a nifty idea – especially in terms of structure – but that’s about it, with Clarke’s direction proving as flat as his performance.
The Anomaly
United Kingdom · 2014
Rated PG-13 · 1h 37m
Director Noel Clarke
Starring Alexis Knapp, Victoria Broom, Brian Cox, Ian Somerhalder
Genre Thriller, Action, Science Fiction
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A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.
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Time Out London by Cath Clarke
Clarke directs fights in weird slo-mo and is generous with scenes of himself in his undies.
The thread holding it all together is endless, repetitive, interminable fight scenes whose limp choreography is spiced up with Matrix-style slow motion -- in 2015. For all that -- fists flying, bullets dodged, gratuitous female nudity -- the film is oddly inert.
From its elaborate but incoherent premise to its clunkily staged time-freeze fight sequences, not one detail of “The Anomaly” hasn’t been borrowed from a better movie. That magpie opportunism would matter less if the film at least had barreling narrative momentum.
Big sci-fi ideas done on a budget doesn't quite translate into a compelling thriller.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
There's infinitely more than one anomaly to be found in The Anomaly, a thoroughly nonsensical futuristic sci-fi thriller that makes a case for the perils of vanity projects.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
The general air of slipshod incompetence thus torpedoes the intriguing concepts underlying Lewis's screenplay.
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