{"id":34975,"date":"2022-01-14T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34975"},"modified":"2022-01-14T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T04:15:08","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/01\/14\/belated-movie-reviews-722\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Who dies next? I’ve got a fiver on myself.” Priests never did learn how to bet.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Mutant Chronicles<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2008), it turns out, is based on a video game, and that explains the dystopian scenario: the world is controlled by four warring corporations (remember the old board game RISK<\/em><\/strong>?), which accidentally break a seal during a corporate war that had been restraining an ancient evil. It specializes in converting the sick, injured, and the dead into multi-use zombies.<\/p>\n

Sort of a recycling program.<\/p>\n

So everyone who can find a ticket onto the spaceships is evacuating Earth, while the leftovers will have to fend for themselves, or join up for that last, suicidal mission to Hell.<\/p>\n

Yeah, sounds like a video game.<\/p>\n

What sort of saves this movie is the acting and the script, who and which manages to wrench some credible emotion out of a scenario that doesn’t really lend itself to emotion. The script digs around and finds some sad situations that actually feel authentic, mostly involving children, and the characters make it work.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say you need to rush right to your favorite movie source to see this. It’s gritty, quite violent, a little silly, and there’s too many throw away characters. But the visuals are generally spectacular, even if Rotten Tomatoes<\/em><\/strong> doesn’t agree – maybe it looked worse on the big screen – there’s an actual plot, and if the ending is somewhat ambiguous, what the hey – it’s all in a good corporate cause.<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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