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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary It is the near future, an ex-soldier and PTSD patient Ryan Reeve (Noel Clarke) has a very disturbing type of blackout amnesia: He regains consciousness days or weeks apart for exactly 9 minutes and 47 seconds, only to discover that he is now a lethal operative for a mysterious organization who wants him dead. Can Reeve stay two steps ahe...

Directed By: Noel Clarke

Written By: Simon Lewis, Noel Clarke

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
The Anomaly
Metascore Generally unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
27
User Score Generally favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary It is the near future, an ex-soldier and PTSD patient Ryan Reeve (Noel Clarke) has a very disturbing type of blackout amnesia: He regains consciousness days or weeks apart for exactly 9 minutes and 47 seconds, only to discover that he is now a lethal operative for a mysterious organization who wants him dead. Can Reeve stay two steps ahe...

Directed By: Noel Clarke

Written By: Simon Lewis, Noel Clarke

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40
Sep 25, 2015
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.
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40
Sep 25, 2015
Clarke directs fights in weird slo-mo and is generous with scenes of himself in his undies.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 25, 2015
Big sci-fi ideas done on a budget doesn't quite translate into a compelling thriller.
By Kim Newman FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 25, 2015
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.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 25, 2015
The general air of slipshod incompetence thus torpedoes the intriguing concepts underlying Lewis's screenplay.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 25, 2015
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.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
20
Sep 25, 2015
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.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Unstoppable Entertainment, Tea Shop Productions, thefyzz
Release Date Sep 25, 2015
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline If you only had 9 minutes 47 seconds, what would you do?
Website https://www.facebook.com/TheAnomalyMovie?fref=ts
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Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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