Mutant Chronicles
2008 Directed by Simon Hunter
Synopsis
Welcome to the 23rd century. The new dark ages.
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine that was once defeated thousands of years ago. The order that awaited it's return must now lead a small group of soldiers to destroy it once and for all.
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Well, this is just silly...
As far as killing potential goes, this film bakes the cake and eats it. It actually has a great post apocalyptic setting which is fleshed out in the first fifteen minutes of the film. Up until then I was actually enjoying myself very much indeed. I liked the visuals, relying a bit too heavy on CGI, but still I liked its style.
What follows, however, is poorly acted, melodramatic, pathos ridden, predictable mediocrity no amount of CGI blood, explosions and green screen scenery can compensate.
Oh, and Ron Perlman, what's up with the weird Scottish/Irish accent? You were doing that to emphasize the silliness of this thing, right? Right??
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A less bad movie from the "mutant chronicles" game has yet to come.
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For a B grade action movie it was...watchable.
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December challenge movie number 16
I bought this movie for 2 Euro, because of Ron Perlman and John Malkovich.
The first 15-20 minutes were intriguing despite the below average CGI but story wise it showed promise. Unfortunately as so many movies, many screenwriters and directors find it difficult to follow through a strong start.
The story itself is known: Unprecedented danger force former enemies to cooperate to fulfill a suicidal mission to save the world whereby only one will survive.
Definitely not a great movie but it kept me entertained for the full run.
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The movie had a very nice style: pleasant color scheme, some great view angles and few very nice filters. Too bad the plot and most of the acting sucked though. Plus I can't believe this wasn't categorized as a comedy! While I watched this I actually had to think if some parts were made to be comical on purpose of it was just bad writing/directing/acting.
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Well, this is just silly...
As far as killing potential goes, this film bakes the cake and eats it. It actually has a great post apocalyptic setting which is fleshed out in the first fifteen minutes of the film. Up until then I was actually enjoying myself very much indeed. I liked the visuals, relying a bit too heavy on CGI, but still I liked its style.
What follows, however, is poorly acted, melodramatic, pathos ridden, predictable mediocrity no amount of CGI blood, explosions and green screen scenery can compensate.
Oh, and Ron Perlman, what's up with the weird Scottish/Irish accent? You were doing that to emphasize the silliness of this thing, right? Right?? -
I loved the mutants in this movie and they are in it quite a bit. They were scary and vicious. It had a good cast with not great but decent acting, Thomas Jane was good and while some did not like probably due to the dark somewhat depressing tone I thought it had a unique plot that kept me interested until the end. Not great but not bad in my opinion it just misses the rotten tomato with a 6 out of 10.
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Read the full Blood Brothers review here: bloodbrothersfilmreviews.blogspot.com/2009/08/mutant-chronicles-25.html
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A film with a lot of ideas but slightly all over the place.