Friday, May 28, 2010

Mutant Chronicles(2008)

For a movie called the Mutant Chronicles, I expected a whole lot more mutant action. The steampunk story starts in a World War I atmosphere with soldiers in trenches when suddenly the machine that was buried years and years ago somehow lets loose it's mutant cargo. The mutants burst on the scene with their huge claws that go right through human skulls like butter. Sean Pertwee turns in another in his performances of someone severely injured lying on the ground and holding a gun.

The two soldiers who escape the mutant battlefield are recruited for a special force to go into the machine and destroy it, thus saving humankind. The groups mission is jeopardized by Major Hunter when on the way to destroying the machine, he leaves the group to try to save Pertwee who is somehow still alive and still being dragged by mutants. Hmm, save the planet or save one man? Bad choice because it leads to others making bad decisions and soon their mission is in ruins as the few left desperately try to figure out how to stop the machine.

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