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MANILA - When you turn a role-playing game (RPG) into a movie, the one thing you should never do is take it too seriously. Fun and a little cheesiness work, philosophical discussions and an attempt at reaching an epic scope do not.
Unfortunately, for fans of the game, the film adaptation of “The Mutant Chronicles” doesn’t have enough of the former and has too much of the latter. It makes for a mind-numbing viewing experience—not exactly what you’d want your action movie to be.
However, this doesn’t mean you can’t derive any enjoyment from it. Some scenes—particularly those involving the titular mutants slashing at humans—work (in a very grindhouse kind of way).
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Then, there’s the sequence where the movie’s protagonists plummet to the earth in a metal container of sorts, their parachute torn to shreds—and the fact that once you get over your sense of outrage (movie tickets are expensive these days, after all), you’ll realize that the movie is good for a couple of laughs. That the filmmakers didn’t intend for it to be funny only makes it even more hilarious.
Directed by Simon Hunter, the movie stars Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, Anna Walton, Benno Fürmann, Sean Pertwee, Luis Echegaray and John Malkovich. The story is set 300 years into the future, where the war-torn world is a grim, cheerless place.
Four corporations—Bauhaus, Capitol, Imperial and Mishima—rule contentiously. In one of their many skirmishes, an ancient seal gets blown up, uncovering an otherworldly machine that spawns mutants. Apparently, their goal is to make all humans mutants, and the object of the game—or rather, the objective of the movie’s band of heroes—is to save mankind by blowing up the machine.
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