Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

tankace The film is good looking, the setting is great and quit faithful for the era and even the idea of tackling the ownership of Shakespeare plays, though ,a bit a stretch, could make of fascinating promise. And this is all the good parts of this film.As for the rest the intrigue after a while becomes more and more absurd to the point that I thought "wait a minute from where did that came from?" Also it was strange that the focus was to the backroom work all the time and not to the work itself of how to make the plays and the manner of the birth of plays that we enjoy still today is boring, for the freaking Shakespeare! OK I get the is the Renaissance and the back- door plays were the norm ,but what about character development? If anything this film proves the Emmerich was a one hit wander with Independece day and Stargate and considering what has produced after 1996 the less is better.All in all skip this film it is worthless in both ideas and it seems that it tries to ruin the legacy of of of history greatest storytellers.

tjagudilla #EAPP11_REV2016 Written by John Orloff, Ronald Emmerich's Anonymous was a potboiler, mouth gnashing, teeth grinding drama thriller about the conspiracy theory about the authorship of Edward de Vere for some well-known, most watched, most read and most anticipated plays, sonnets, and literary works that has been known for decades as William's Shakespeare masterpieces. Anonymous is also a historical drama about the time when England was in a succession crisis and in the time when there are doubts of who will be the true successor rightful to the throne.Anonymous was indeed a good movie as they meticulously brought us back to the good old times of the Elizabethan London. They richly evoked the London of its time, when the splendor of the court lived in a metropolis of appalling scarcity and the streets were ankle- deep in mud. It creates a resounding and genuine atmosphere, which established how intimate it was. The groundings could almost reach out and touch the players, and in the box seats, such as Oxford himself could witness the power of ,based on the story, was his work.Anonymous was also marvelous in its cinematography and depiction of the characters. The dialogues, acting and etc. was splendid making the movie more effective and making its audience as tense and thrilled as intended for a drama thriller. And another thing that makes the movie interesting is the way how the story line goes hooking the audience to watch in order to find out the mysteries and to answer questions on their mind created by the story itself. But on the other hand, there's a quite mix-ups and muddles in its flashing back of time in the earlier lives of the characters that make it somehow hard to follow and hard to apprehend. The movie is very splendid even though others, especially the fans of William Shakespeare might found it trampling their favorite William Shakespeare. I think they shouldn't be offended of the concepts of Anonymous. First things first, How can we say that what we read on books, internet about William Shakespeare are true? Are there really evidences or just like the concept of these movie they are just mere conjectures? Are the sources really reliable or are they just some secondary sources passed person by person without knowing if it's the mere truth or if something was changed or omitted or misunderstood? For me the movie, although having that introduction of Derek Jacobi, is not really intended to trample the reputation of the Great William Shakespeare. Because if we will analyzed the title of the story, it is not quite applicable because as we can see there's really no anonymous in the movie, all are revealed. Edward de Vere though used the pen name anonymous but it is not significant enough to be a title as a whole. For me Anonymous was whoever the author of the plays, sonnets, and etc. Because as of now, though many believed its Shakespeare, there are still debates of who really has the right to claim the authorship, and Edward de Vere is one of them. And for the movie, the author believed its de Vere. This movie doesn't really tried to destroy Shakespeare but just trying to support the Oxfordian theory that it was De Vere who wrote those. If there are films that support Shakespeare, this are just another version of the conspiracy theory that it was de Vere. There are many questions in our minds right now. If it really was Shakespeare or de Vere, or any other author who make those fantastic work? But it really doesn't matter now, whoever the author of these fantastic masterpieces, whoever this genius man who make fame on writing that his works are still marking on the heart of its reader. What important is that there's these works present up to this century that keeps on inspiring and motivating each and every one of the readers. Anonymous is a great movie, the story line, the cinematography, the depiction of the characters and the setting, the plot twists, the hype was generally great for me regardless of how inaccurate it was,

titerry Never, EVER had I watched a film, and just as the credits begin to roll, immediately restarted the film to watch, again. This film "Anonymous" is the first I'd ever done such a thing,...well I did somewhat the same with "Great Expectations (the original), "Wuthering Heights," (the original), and okay...Scorsese's "Age of Innocence."I truly enjoy watching this film "Anonymous," and will add this film to my DVD collection. The actors...well...come on...STELLAR!A film that you would have to watch without any breaks, oh yeah, or you can pause it if you gotta, go; if you know what I mean. What I found out at the end of this film, did blow my mind, as did one actor, playing 'said' role, when he discovered a *truth.*If you love and enjoy watching films and tele series about the Tudors, Elizabethan period, the works of *Shakespeare*, and historical/period works of cinema, then this is your film to watch. It will make ya go, Hmmmmm...what if.Thanks for reading.

bowmanblue I don't know why I ever watched this. It was only because it was a new film that I bothered to put it in the DVD player. Therefore I had absolutely no expectations from it.At first I was confused. Everyone in the past apparently looked the same, i.e. beards and ruffs and Baldrick lookalikes for servants. However, I stuck with it. And I'm glad I did.I'm not big on history, so I won't (or can't) comment on its historical accuracy, but it was a damn enjoyable romp nonetheless.It makes the claim that Shakespeare didn't write is plays, but, instead, there was a larger conspiracy at work and someone else did. Now, I don't know whether this was really true or not, but, it's fun to watch.Once you establish which beard is which and which beard is actually a younger incarnation of a beard in the future (as there are a lot of flashbacks showing what the beards were doing when they were younger), you can actually follow the conspiracy and see which beard comes out on top. As it's filled with plenty of beheading, back-stabbing and political treachery, it's actually more entertaining than you might think.A happy filmic surprise.