Archive for October, 2009

Mutant Chronicles

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

OK so I’m up way too late on a school night or work night or whatever.  Drinking a few beers and stumble across an OK looking movie called Mutant Chronicles thinking I can watch an hour of this and go to bed.

Wow!  Was I surprised to see this visually stunning film.

IMDB reports (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/plotsummary)

At the end of the Ice Age, The Machine came from the outer space with the purpose to change men into mutants. However, a hero defeated the device and a great seal was laid over The Machine. In 2707, the depleted world is ruled by four Corporations: Mishima, Bauhaus, Capitol and Imperial that are in constant war. During a battle between Capitol and Bauhaus, the great seal is broken and The Machine works again transforming soldiers and civilians in hordes of mutants. A small part of the population escapes to Mars, leaving millions of people behind. The man of faith and leader of an ancient brotherhood Brother Samuel is a believer of God and the Chronicles, a bible about the mutants. With the city under siege of the mutants, he visits the Corporations’ leader Constantine asking for an aircraft and twenty men for a suicide mission to destroy The Machine, planting a bomb and a detonator following the knowledge of the Chronicles. He recruits the tough Major ‘Mitch’ Hunter; the Bauhaus Lieutenant Maximillian von Steiner; the keeper of the Chronicles Severian that is under a vow of silence; the gorgeous and lethal Corporal Valerie Duval; Corporal Juba Kim Wu; Captain John McGuire; and Corporal Jesus ‘El Jesus’ de Barrera. Together they become the last hope of Earth against the evil mutants.

I give it an 8.5 out of 10 stars – very good visual movie!

Organizm

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

OK so I can’t even find this title on IMDB.com.

It was an OK flick with a great blood scene where the two heroes rub blood all over each other.  Not a great flick.  Silly special effects, but an interesting one.  High school teacher finds out he is the only person in the world that can stop and unleashed alien life form.

Over dramatic?  Yes.  Mediocre acting?  Yes.  Ok premise?  Yeah it was OK.  Check it out on Netflix on demand.

7 out of 10 stars – mainly due to the one really cool scene!

Your thoughts Toby?