It was a movie that was so much that people didn’t expect it, they laughed. No one believed he would be released. Nobody liked him, not Fox, not Marvel, not test groups. Having completed the acquisition of Fox Studios around that time, Disney was left with a film that was made, but nobody wanted it. After 2.5 years he was released, for some reason. Everyone knew it would be a failure. But they did it because they kind of had to, because people were already seeing the ads and asking questions, and someone upstairs might not want to break the hearts of the cast and crew.
This is a small chamber youth thriller that had a very clear script about the relationships of a handful of people and who did everything he could within his framework. You can see that the authors tried, and not purely for the sake of the long buck (which was not particularly shining here at once). The actors play well, and with a clear lack of material content, watching the film is generally not boring. If you condemn clichéd conveyor films about superheroes, then this one will give you a certain discharge, because it is different and there are none of the outdated techniques in it, and there is surprisingly no moronic humor at all. In general, the film is badly shot down, but it has a number of fundamental flaws that make it impossible to take seriously:
- It is literally an adaptation of a banana Internet quote. But I knew her in the version with wolves, then they were replaced by bears. Bayan could be mentioned, but not put it in a tie and denouement.
- It's also a variation on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," in the sense that the problem in the fool was not the psychos, but the doctor. But this movie is infinitely far away.
The first half of the film could be cut into a bucket. Yes, you can see the work of the actors, the dedication of the team to the ideals of non-commercial cinema, but you will not lose anything in content if you just turn on the middle.
- This is clearly not a movie to be released in theaters (which they fought so hard for). With a pure streaming release, they would still have failed, but the scores would have been better.
Dr. Reyes is shown as white, although she is black in the comics. At the stage of production, this was surprising, because now in the wake of the black dictatorship in the cinema, characters are ordered to be repainted in the opposite direction. But in the end it turned out to be simple: the character is a villain. A black woman could not be a bad woman, so whitewashed. This is one of the most senseless and pathetic deflections under trends.
- Lesbian.
- Slenderman. Are you seriously putting this meme, almost funny character in the thriller?
"I'll let you all go, but I'll take one for myself" - the offer of such a deal from the villain is direct plagiarism with "It."
- I didn’t understand the value of the film to the audience. Fiction should offer the viewer eye food, and realistic films should teach something. Here, the heroes struggle with what does not happen in our lives, but we were not particularly pleased with the visual. The whole film is essentially made for a single scene at the end, but it is absolutely ordinary by the standards of science fiction.
And so I don't think The New Mutants is a bad movie, but it was absolutely unnecessary. No one.