It's... fine. Not good, but not that bad either.Bazzah wrote:QUOTE (Bazzah @ Nov 28 2020, 03:39 PM) What is this like? I have heard mixed reviews.
It's bland and forgettable, but it's coherent enough as a standalone movie about teens with superpowers in an asylum.
It's certainly not the train-wreck that some media outlets would have you believe. In a series that contains X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix, New Mutants is not overtly insulting or nonsensical. The numerous delays of the film were clearly a result of Fox constantly shifting its schedule and then the buyout from Disney. If any reshoots were done (and I don't believe they were), they are not obvious (unlike Fant4stic or Justice League). It doesn't feel like a film that was chewed up and stitched back together in editing by a studio that couldn't make up its mind.
It's far more tonally and narratively consistent than something like Suicide Squad or Justice League, which were butchered in post-production by too many cooks in the kitchen. New Mutants feels like the result of a single directorial vision from start to finish. The only problem is that the director's vision wasn't all that interesting to begin with. The horror/young-adult tones never quite hit the mark, the characters are not exactly compelling, and the villain and threats are underwhelming.
You'll watch it and you won't remember much about it soon after, but at least it probably won't frustrate or annoy you.
I will check it out, but not have any high expectations.
