Mutant Chronicles has an intriguing premise, good performances and some decent effects, but it's let down by some terrible pacing and an extremely dull script.
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10/18/08
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Mutant Chronicles (2009)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:5
Rotten:25
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Bad acting, poor CGI and clunky script mean this sci-fi thriller is lacking in all departments including the thrills.
Theatrical Release:10-10-2008
Synopsis: In the year 2707, war rages between earth’s four giant corporations as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. In an era marked by warfare and social regression, the earth is on the... [More]
Starring: Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane, Devon Aoki, John Malkovich
Director: Simon Hunter
Reviews for Mutant Chronicles
There is some excitement to be had. However, it looks like a computer game unwisely made into a movie without the money to do it justice.
10/10/08
When the ridiculous and the sublime come within kissing distance like this, you know that, script or no script, Hollywood has found a way to have a wonderful time.
10/10/08
There’s lots of shooting, grenades exploding and things going bang and, even if the film gets bogged down by some needless religious mumbo-jumbo, the whole thing looks great in a grimy, Blade Runner kind of way.
10/10/08
This is a gruesome film, even by modern standards. It is also utterly devoid of a point, or interesting ideas.
10/10/08
Are excitable eight-year-olds – this movie’s intellectual target audience – really going to wait another ten years before they can watch it legally?
10/10/08
The production notes describe this as an epic sci-fi action thriller like no other, which is on every level a blessing - it's like being dropped into a tar pit of underlit tedium.
10/10/08
Top CriticA cranium-pulverisingly dull and badly acted sci-fi action non-thriller.
10/10/08
Top CriticBut a screenplay that sounds like it was hewn from chunks of wood is a great leveller, so everyone comes out looking equally inept.
10/10/08
Top CriticRubbish CGI, rubbish acting, rubbish storytelling. Throw in a few mutants and a better-than-it-deserves cast and you get this sci-fi timewaster.
10/10/08
Top CriticA cheesy attempt to throw everything at the screen, this futuristic thriller would no doubt work much better as a videogame
10/09/08
There's no doubting the frenetic energy of Simon Hunter's steampunk thriller with its deft mixing of CGI and live action. The mutants are artforms of grotesqueness and truly terrifying.
10/09/08
This movie is lost from the start and never finds its way. Plays like a video game with repetitive special effects and wooden dialogue.
08/05/09
The film plays like an extended-cut scene from an Xbox 360 shooter, but heroic sons of bitches mixed with exploding torsos at humanity’s darkest hour sometimes equals splattery fun.
05/01/09
The computer-generated imagery falls short when it comes to supplying the gore for the fight scenes: the bright splashes of red look almost literally Photoshopped onto the settings.
04/29/09
It's photogenic people killing mutants before green screens; what more could you ask?
04/29/09
Top CriticStylized, slapdash sci-fi bloodbath is gory and grim.
04/27/09
Shoestring special effects and flimsy storytelling make Mutant Chronicles a B-movie fantasy in search of an old Times Square moviehouse.
04/27/09
...makes one long for the comparatively straightforward incompetence of filmmakers like Uwe Boll.
04/24/09
The reason most movies don't include aliens, zombies, weird mysticism and a lot of swordfighting is that each of those elements... takes time to explore and nurture into something compelling.
04/24/09
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