The New Mutants

Review: Thank God this movie was only 90 minutes long. Anything else would’ve been really difficult to watch. A superhero horror film that is very vaguely adjacently related to the ‘X-Men’ movies, this film follows a group of five young mutants and their time spent and eventual escape from a ‘mutant hospital.’ This is an extremely forgettable flick, though I do respect it trying to break the mold & even genre a little bit for superhero movies. The execution just wasn’t there. There were many frustrating & confusing moments that are some of the campy lows from the horror genre. One example is Sam hitting the Smiling Men with a fire extinguisher, like bro you quite literally have superpowers maybe use those.

High: The young cast played their roles as well as they could with poor writing & direction. Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair, Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie, Blu Hunt as Dani Moonstar, & Henry Zaga as Sunspot all played their roles, well fine. Not great, but not terrible. This is going to be actually turn into a low for wasting Anya Taylor-Joy. She is one of the best young actresses in Hollywood, but she plays a forgettable character in a forgettable movie. The worst part of this is that all these characters, especially Taylor-Joy’s Magik, are compelling and interesting characters with a lot of potential.

Low: There were a lot of lows. The writing was terrible, the final act consists of the protagonist, Dani telling the giant demon bear (seriously) to relax and these are the exact lines. ‘Stop. No. No. I’m in charge now. Control. Good. Shhhh. Shh.’ with dramatic pauses between each phrase. Brilliant. The general direction the film takes is sketchy. But the lowest of the lows to me is the fact that this is the last X-Men movie we got and the last Marvel movie from Fox. ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ gives most of these films one more little juice of life to send them off, but ‘The New Mutants’ was DOA, so this one will be forgotten in the sands of time.

Rating: 4/10