In this futuristic movie, the gender roles are relegated to the Neanderthal days. Women are either victims, who need to be saved by the hunky male lead, or are sex toys, who service said hunky male lead, or also service each other. It's like someone decided to stick a "porn" film in the middle of a "sci-fi" film. Now I can appreciate both, but mixing the two distracts from the more interesting ideas of the latter. The most annoying part however; is that the protagonist spends the whole movie hunting down a murdering female, who in the end turns out to just be another "damsel in distress", that he is obligated to save from the real killer, who of course is a male. You can see the "lovey-dovey" ending coming from the middle of the film. It's a like Disney film with a little "porn" thrown in. By the way, the "sci-fi" idea is quite interesting, but unfortunately gets buried in romantic cliche.

I would have rated the movie higher but for the ending - the mysterious statement at the end was jibberish to me and ruined an otherwise decent movie. Oh, well...

Most Netflix films have great premise but have lousy actors but Anon has Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, and yet their performances are as wooden as amateur actors. The idea of technology invading our privacy is not new but can still be interesting, just look at Black Mirror. All those nude scenes, sex scenes or blood spattering scenes can't cover the paper thin storyline. There is almost nothing on the background on the two main characters, or three if you count Mark O'Brien as well. Their actions/reactions seem forced and arbitrary as I can't feel for them. I just wished Netflix has spent more efforts in the script instead of marketing.

The message behind the movie is clear and commendable: privacy cannot be lost in the name of percieved safety.But the movie itself is so bad...In this extreme controlling society, police can apparently solve crimes only through the evidence gathered in the Ether (the cloud where all the memories are storaged), otherwise they can do no investigating work.The police itself is seen as corrupt and omnipotent. The protagonist is seen hiding evidence in a theft case because he didn't like the victim and wanted to help the criminal. We are supposed to feel empathy for this man because with his action he's helping a person in need, while completely disregarding the fact that this shows the police has put themselves above the law.Hiding from this all-seeing eye is also extremely simple: close your own eyes and no record of any crime is registered. But this is also a contradictory point within the movie: the scenes where we look through someone else's eyes there is no blinking, no head bobbing, no surroundings, no sudden movements... but when the plot needs it closing your own eyes actually obscures the recording.There are also a few gunshot fired but apparently we are not looking at a human story because all the people shot are androids and have no blood whatsoever...