Ive spent much of today after watching the film just last night, trying to come up with positives to this film, unfortunately there is none I can think of, the movie has a number of big issues, firstly the constant delays to the film where I had heard reshoots were meant to be taking place. This was not the case. Then you have the actors issue, the actors consistently change accents, or their appearance change much like the blonde character one moment having hair buns then the very next seen it changed... the editing is completely off, and at best feels like a mismatch of scenes put together with no flow. When the characters start to go on about strange things happening and they all somehow know what each person is talking about makes no sense as at that point two of the characters had a single moment something happened... no character development really, plots just randomly thrown in and never revisited. Then there's the very very misleading trailer that paints a completely different film, I have no idea if the footage in the trailer was part of the very original cut or one the later cuts, I believe one the main reasons the film is such a mess is partly down to the constant push backs, that and the terrible mess of a plot (If it can be called a plot). The issues I mentioned early with the accents was a big part of the film, as the characters begin a dialog but it's very noticeable the accent is dropped or forgotten completely. What makes that worse is it's not just one character, it's basically all of them. In addition the CG work and other effects are just down right poor, the bear at the end is constantly changing size and shape, one angle the bear appears huge on the face angle but then shifting further away at a side angle somehow has become so much smaller than when it was attacking the building where it clearly towering 2 or so floors... I wish I could find some redeeming quality to this film, the New Mutants end result was such a mess you could hardly call it a film, there was no horror aspect like seen in the trailer, I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone, it's a skip, 5.5 is far too generous. The concept had potential, if executed right.
Review of The New Mutants
