southern respectively).Īnd the story - disappointing to say the least. Most of the ensemble cast are relatively new up-and-coming stars such as Maise Williams ("Game of Thrones"), Anya Taylor-Joy ("The Witch/Queen's Gambit"), and Charlie Heaton ("Stranger Things") but the acting is mediocre, and worst of all, they butcher whatever accent they are supposed to have (Irish, Russian, and U.S. Most times these scenes are fun, but the special effects are a mixed bag, jumping back and forth from decent to cheesy. The best parts are pulled from the X-men series in which mutants first find out their powers, typically represented effectively on screen. Young mutants are haunted/harassed by something in a mental hospital. We pretty much know the gist from the trailers. That doesn't bode well for future work from Josh "The Fault in my Stars" Boone (e.g. Even recently with mostly bad reviews and press, I wanted to see it for myself.Īnd. It's certainly one of the more interesting X-Men movies, and I'll be honest there's quite a bit I liked about it, even if the overall product is cluttered and a bit sloppy.Īs both a horror and X-men fan, I was looking forward to this mashup since the first trailer dropped. I don't know how you would make this movie better, as it is it's probably as good as it could be. Any one character could have had their own story, but they're all crammed together. The problem is, we just get a taste of how interesting they are, a little background trauma, and then we move on. For what it's worth, everyone is interesting.
But they still have to have their big cgi fight at the end, and even with a way smaller cast than usual I never felt like the characters got the room to breath they needed.
Add a creepy institute on top of that? Hell yeah. The idea of doing a horror movie with powers is great, and new mutants first discovering their powers is a great outlet for that. It's still a mess, but it almost works, and the fact that it almost works is kind of a miracle. For how much of a struggle this film went through and how it almost never came to be, I expected it to be much more of a mess than it is.
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