Rubbish CGI, rubbish acting, rubbish storytelling. Throw in a few mutants and a better-than-it-deserves cast and you get this sci-fi timewaster.
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10/10/08
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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:Apr 24, 2009 Limited
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
It's photogenic people killing mutants before green screens; what more could you ask?
04/29/09
I dearly hope John Malkovich got paid handsomely for his two days of embarrassment on-set.
04/22/09
Every guy has watched an action film and wondered when we'd get to the good stuff, but from minute one we're given "the good stuff," but it's just not executed well enough, and the film is too kitschy to really be enjoyed.
04/22/09
The feature is better executed in a shoot-first-ask-questions-later style that encourages silence and brutality. Once the material is asked to explain itself, the entertainment value of the film curdles immediately.
04/16/09
Combine some of the most misguided design decisions in years with dialogue, plot, and characters out of an Uwe Boll film and you have a definite misfire
04/23/09
This is a gruesome film, even by modern standards. It is also utterly devoid of a point, or interesting ideas.
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
...suffers from a pervadingly low-rent sensibility that proves impossible to overlook.
10/26/08
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
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 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
You won't understand what's going on and, even worse, you won't care.
04/22/09
Mutant Chronicles is The Dirty Dozen - but with murderous mutants!
11/05/08
Stylized, slapdash sci-fi bloodbath is gory and grim.
04/27/09
oloklirotiki adynamia ton synteleston eite na kratisoyn to pantrema sto paradosiaka apodekto, eite na to perasoyn sto prohorimeno aisthitika, os stilistika proothimeno, geionontas se akribos sto kentro enos paradoksoy yparksiakoy uncanny valley
09/16/08
not only ridiculously lame but sickeningly contrived
04/09/09
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.
10/18/08
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
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
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