I watched this with no particular expectation about the story, and I haven't seen "Black Mirror." Two of my favorite actors, Clive Owen and Colm Feore star in it - I'm one of those old-fashioned people who follows the actors or director.

"Anon" takes place some time in the future, where no one has any privacy, where everyone's history is instantly available, everyone's memories are recorded and can be viewed.

Detective Sal Frieland becomes intrigued as he investigates a series of murders and sees a young woman on the street who has no data. The murders are traced to a message board where people go to contact a hacker who can erase something in their record. Could this woman be killing her clients? He goes undercover to hire her and find out her identity.

Amanda Seyfried plays the woman, Anon, and she looks completely different as a brunette. The film is interestingly photographed - in kind of gray tones with lots of strange camera angles.

I found it an interesting concept and enjoyed the film.

ANON is yet another Hollywood thriller that's cutting edge when it comes to modern technology, this time concerning surveillance and its implications in the 21st century world. Thus it shines a light on modern practices which are undoubtedly worrying to some. Unfortunately that's about all it has to say, as there's virtually zero storyline apart from a mild little murder mystery whose solution turns out to be mundane, to say the least. Clive Owen seems to be too old for the lead role - the years haven't been kind to him - although Amanda Seyfried fares better as the femme fatale. However, the plot and scripting are far too generic to be of any real depth or interest.

Anon is a futuristic sci-fi thriller in the mould of Minority Report.

Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) is a cop who solves crimes by reviewing people's memories that exist in the ether. Files are available and reviewed, this is a society where people have lost their privacy.

When a series of murders are uncovered, it seems there is an anonymous hacker who is manipulating the point of view of the victims and their memories. Sal figures it is a mysterious woman (Amanda Seyfried) who society has no record of.

Writer/director Andrew Niccol creates an interesting world but there is too much reading of small text on screen that scrolls so fast you quickly give up on it. The film loses its impetus once Sal and the woman meet up, the twist was not unexpected as I reckoned their would be an interested third person involved.