Synopsis
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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Cast
- Alexis KnappDana
- Victoria BroomAlex's mother
- Brian CoxDr. Langham
- Ian SomerhalderHarkin
- Noel ClarkeRyan
- Luke HemsworthAgent Elkin
- Michael BispingSergio
- Art ParkinsonAlex
- Ali Cookl'agent Travis
- Reuben DabrowPolska
Recommendations
- 40
Empire
Big sci-fi ideas done on a budget doesn't quite translate into a compelling thriller. - 40
Time Out London
Clarke directs fights in weird slo-mo and is generous with scenes of himself in his undies. - 40
Total Film
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. - 30
Los Angeles Times
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. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
The general air of slipshod incompetence thus torpedoes the intriguing concepts underlying Lewis's screenplay. - 30
Village Voice
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. - 20
Variety
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.
