THE MUTANT CHRONICLES Film Review - 22/12/08

It's out there in the darkness lurking. Black and dreadful and slithering around. Amongst the debris and the devastation, the firing of the shells and the mud of the trenches. A future where man has fallen and risen again with a different history and a different culture. More Steampunk Gothic than anything else with a religious group trying to keep the touch of death back in the form of a great machine turning humans into zombie mutants and a group of people prepared to die to stop the evil. The story struggles valiantly to come out as a post-apocalypse magnificent seven try to destroy the root of Armageddon against a background of CGI landscapes so black & white half the time you can't see what the hell is going on in the monochrome haze. Shaky cam and computer enhanced effects just whizz by in a cloud of blood spray & mush as the action lurches from one backdrop to the other like madly spinning game animation gone wild! The setting and stylisation is epic and truly outstanding it's just a pity the total incoherence of the plot and the scene-setting, just flashes past your eyeballs with barely a glance. A strange film indeed if you want something unusual to watch?