It's the year 2707, which looks curiously like 1942 except with more corporations and bigger guns. An ancient machine has been uncovered which mutates all it comes into contact with via some pseudo-scientific method. A team of intensely one-dimensional soldiers is recruited to die horribly in an entertaining fashion while spouting god-awful dialogue and conforming to stereotypes. Ron Perlman stars in a role that is far less worth his time than Hellboy. John Malkovich appears for five minutes in an effort to put another name on the poster.
Mutant Chronicles is not going to be popular, because it's not very good. It's not the worst film I've ever seen. The cinematography is good, in a sort of Sin City-esquire limited colour palette and some great action scenes. It's got some good ideas, set in a steampunk-style future where perpetual war is the order of the day, and the absence of a highly technological future sets it apart from most. The plot isn't even totally ridiculous, and would have promise if it was made correctly. It's just a pity that so many mistakes are made.
There's obvious continuity errors throughout the film and the universe is just not consistent. These are grating mistakes that could be ignored if the rest was any good, but the quality of the script is just so low that it cannot redeem the film. The dialogue is almost inexclusively awful and provides no character development and absolutely no reason to care about any of the characters, all of whom are essentially faceless drones. Apparently the film has been released in an unfinished form, which would explain some aspects of it, but even in a finished form I cannot imagine the dialogue improving. If you want to do the dirty in a cinema, go see this, because you'll be the only ones there.
Mutant Chronicles is not going to be popular, because it's not very good. It's not the worst film I've ever seen. The cinematography is good, in a sort of Sin City-esquire limited colour palette and some great action scenes. It's got some good ideas, set in a steampunk-style future where perpetual war is the order of the day, and the absence of a highly technological future sets it apart from most. The plot isn't even totally ridiculous, and would have promise if it was made correctly. It's just a pity that so many mistakes are made.
There's obvious continuity errors throughout the film and the universe is just not consistent. These are grating mistakes that could be ignored if the rest was any good, but the quality of the script is just so low that it cannot redeem the film. The dialogue is almost inexclusively awful and provides no character development and absolutely no reason to care about any of the characters, all of whom are essentially faceless drones. Apparently the film has been released in an unfinished form, which would explain some aspects of it, but even in a finished form I cannot imagine the dialogue improving. If you want to do the dirty in a cinema, go see this, because you'll be the only ones there.