Mutant World
- Fundamentals, reception.
- Canadian live action feature length film, 2014, not rated, two hours with commercials, SciFi.
- IMDB: 6.6/10.0 from 10 audience ratings.
- Rotten Tomatoes: no entries yet.
- I watched this on the SyFy Channel.
- Directed by: David Winning.
- Starring: Kim Coates as Marcus King, Holly Deveaux as Melissa King, Ashanti as The Preacher, Amber Marshall as Nicole, Jason Cermak as Geoff King,
- Setup and Plot
- A meteor kilometers wide strikes Earth. A survivalist group goes underground and survives the impact. Ten years later, the group's solar array gets damaged. Volunteers go up to fix it. The fix does not quite do the job, so the group goes out looking for other energy sources. They encounter radiation and an aggressive mutant.
- Then they find some normal-looking humans, but they turn out to be mutants at night. Great.
- They meet The Preacher, who hopes to return to Haven after finding more survivors. Preacher helps out, but gets killed by the mutants. Will the group make contact with Haven? Will anyone find a way to be safe from the mutants? Will any group find a stable solution in energy or weaponry?
- Conclusions
- One line summary: Post-apocalyptic mutants versus normal humans.
- One star of five; two black holes for acting and screenplay.
- Scores
- Cinematography: 5/10 OK in some stretches, downright poor in others.
- Sound: 5/10 I could make out the dialog most of the time. The background sound track was not a positive factor.
- Acting: 0/10 Uniformly worthless. Kim Coates gave a few good moments toward the end of the film, but that did not even balance the long stretches of the film when he was not around.
- Screenplay: 0/10 There are about twenty minutes of story stretched thinly to about 88 minutes with 32 minutes of commercials. The film has an extra dose of terrible in the dialog. The protagonist, Melissa, is so anti-effective as a leader than I was surprised that her followers did not frag her with extreme prejudice.
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