The Mutant Chronicles DVD

Advantages: Looks great
Disadvantages: Weak ending

...fantasy films and you get The Mutant Chronicles. I personally haven't heard of the Role Playing Game this is based on (because I'm not that much of a nerd) but fans of Silent Hill and Quake 4 will all be crying that this has mercilessly ripped off their ideas. Which is completely wrong as the original RPG was written way back in 1993 predating Quake 4 by 12 years and Silent Hill by 6 years so it appears the plot of this game has proved to ...
...movie having previously starred in The Mist (and we had no clue why he was the star in that either), The Punisher (the incredibly weak remake that made Dolph Lungren's version look good) and Deep Blue Sea so he's hardly what you call star material. I assume they cast him because he looked good in the costume and gave off a suitably pretty vibe to the women in the room. If we're honest John Malkovich is the biggest star in the movie but he's ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Everything.

The Mutant Chronicles. It came from space……… It came to change man into mutants….. A war followed and was just about won. The machine was buried in the earth so it could do no more harm and there it waits……to be discovered. The year is 2707 and four corporations rule the whole world and battle each other endlessly. The movie begins with trench warfare and even though set in the future it clearly depicts that war never changes no matter what ...
...and hand to hand combat. The fighting is fierce and then the 'Machine 'is found. A portal opens and the mutants begin to escape, suddenly the soldiers and not fighting each other they're fighting for their lives. The mutants have only one objective to butcher anything that isn't a mutant and this they do very efficiently. You are still only 13 minutes into the movie! The start of the movie is at night and with the flashes from the artillery and ... Read review

Advantages: fast-paced, well acted, full of horror
Disadvantages: blue screen effects are terrible

...set seven hundred years in the future, when the world is divided. This is not Simon Hunter's first movie, however he is a reasonably new director. His 2000 movie Lighthouse, a British horror flick, recieved two awards at film festivals. This story is based loosley on The Mutant Chronicles role playing game of the 90's. The Mutant Chronicles is rated as an 18, and features intense scenes of violence. The cast of the movie is littered with faces we ...
...Ron Perlman. The film is set in the year 2707, when the world has exhausted its natural resources, and relies primarily on steam as a power source. The world is divided into four factions, Bauhaus, Mishima, Imperial and Capitol, who battle one another for power, and world dominance. In the midst of a war between Bauhaus and Capitol, an ancient seal is broken, unearthing an evil that threatens to aniolate mankind. Sean Pertwee, who played Sergeant ... Read review

Advantages: Good Cast, Nice Effects
Disadvantages: The Editing affected the pace in places

I have to disagree with the first review. YES some of the concepts have been used before in Movies, BUT these concepts were used first in both Warzone (a Wargame set in the Mutant Chronicles Universe) and in the RPG Mutant Chronicles. No lighting problems for me, as I bought my copy (the Bootlegs drifting around on the net are very 'dark'). The film drops you straight in the action, then takes the pace down quite nicely to give you the main Story ...
...My only issue is with the editing, it does tend to slow things down in places. All the cast did really well, its very difficult to convey the complexities of such a complex Universe as that of the Mutant Chronicles, but the Writer and the Director did well - the cast they chose were just right IMHO. ... Read review