
Set in the future, the film is about the development of new cutting-edge bioweapon. Traumatized ex-soldier Ryan Reeve wakes up in the back of a moving van next to a young boy who has been kidnapped, he attempts to free the boy, but blacks out. He is forced to work out what is happening in bursts of time no longer than ten minutes, before his mind is taken over again. He teams up with the mysterious "Dana" as he battles a conspiracy known as "Anomaly" led by Harkin Langham, an... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in the future, the film is about the development of new cutting-edge bioweapon. Traumatized ex-soldier Ryan Reeve wakes up in the back of a moving van next to a young boy who has been kidnapped, he attempts to free the boy, but blacks out. He is forced to work out what is happening in bursts of time no longer than ten minutes, before his mind is taken over again. He teams up with the mysterious "Dana" as he battles a conspiracy known as "Anomaly" led by Harkin Langham, and learns that the bioweapon is the same mind control that has allowed its creator to take over his body.
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| Empire MagazineKim NewmanBig sci-fi ideas done on a budget doesn't quite translate into a compelling thriller. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenThere'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. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeFrom 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. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanAdmittedly, in director/star Noel Clarke's low-budget sci-fi actioner, the acting and script do provoke surprise: both are so bad, you find yourself wondering if what's unfolding is some kind of parody. |
| SFX MagazineRussell LewinSaddled with unsayable dialogue and variable special effects, it's a corny and hackneyed film with ideas well above its station, that underwhelms from the start. |
| Digital SpyStella PapamichaelThe Anomaly has all the ingredients of a winning formula, in the wrong measures. |
| Time OutCath ClarkeClarke directs fights in weird slo-mo and is generous with scenes of himself in his undies. |
| ScotsmanSiobhan SynnotAs an actor Clarke is likeable, but his film is derivative, distracted and desperately in need of a better denouement. |
| The ListHenry NorthmoreThe over reliance on slo-mo also makes every action sequence repetitive, even with some semi-decent fight choreography on display. The tacked-on love story is so shallow and perfunctory it's almost laughable. |
| The Ooh TrayEd WhitfieldOne day the world will find out what Noel Clarke has on Universal Pictures and it's going to change the film industry forever. |