Review of Mutants

Mutants (2009)
3/10
Zombies in a blue, boring world
25 October 2018
"Mutants" is a hopelessly tedious French rip-off of "28 Days Later".

Yes, it's set after the zombie outbreak, and these zombies run, I think. It has some violent moments, but nothing memorable or noteworthy. It's one of those movies that is only notable for what it lacks, which is pretty much everything. It has no characters. People run around and shoot things and die, but none of them connected as a protagonist, and none have any kind of personality or anything to help you tell them apart. It also doesn't really have a story, or a plot.

What plot there is is apparently something to do with a pregnant woman who cannot contract the zombifying virus. She's in a post-outbreak world that seems to entirely consist of the interiors of dull buildings. She has a husband.

Early in the movie, there was a black policewoman who pointed a gun at the people I suppose were the heroes. Prior to this I had assumed that she must have been the hero; she is much more interesting to look at than they are.

About the most I can say about "Mutants", aside from noting its debt to "28 Days Later", which is a true masterpiece by comparison, is the fact that the whole movie is blue. I mean everything in it looks blue. What was the point of that? Who has ever watched a movie and thought, "I would have liked this movie more if everything in it had been tinted blue". The horribly monotone visuals made me want to look away. The lack of any characters, or even actors with any charisma or presence, made me not care.
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