Mutant Chronicles

If you enjoy science-fiction movies (and have a heart), you will enjoy this movie.  No foolin'.  This is one of the better movies that Medusa's Face has reviewed.

 

The year is 2707.  Four corporations now control the world.  They are in constant battle over resources.  During one of the struggles, one company unintentionally cracks the seal on "The Machine", an ancient device that takes the dying or dead and transforms them into mutants.  If successful, The Machine will destroy mankind and replace it with nothing but mutants.  A brotherhood that managed to stop The Machine generations ago, a sort of religion, has a book and a device that may help stop The Machine again.

 

A group of elite soldiers are asked to go on a suicide mission to stop The Machine.  The group of ten, get transported to a "lost city" where they have to navigate through catacombs and old structures, on their journey to The Machine.  The group also battles mutants along the way and take heavy casualties.  As part of the story, the elite group gets enlightened that the mutants do not feel pain and can only be stopped by catastrophic tissue damage, bombs, or swords.  One bullet kill shots definitely are not on the menu.

 

Mutants are stabbed in the face with their own mutant limbs, hit in the head with stalactites, blown up, cut in half, ... you name it.  It all boils down to the main character putting the device in place and sending The Machine rocketing away from Earth.

 

The story moves along nicely.  Lots of action.  Lots of violence.  I don't think that I could have asked for much more from this film.  I am not saying that I would purchase the movie, but I would definitely watch this movie again.

 

I give this movie 5 out of 5 mutants.