Mutants

I’m not really thrilled about this film (I expected a bit more), but it’s still a pretty good (not-quite) zombie flick. During the first fifteen minutes, however, it didn’t look like that; I won’t lie, at the beginning I was shocked at how awful this film, which I had been looking forward to for several months, looked. Unreasonably frantic cinematography, music (or rather, noises) that almost drove me insane, characters that even a humanitarian would want to kill… there was a lot that bothered me. But those things eventually go away (or I got used to them, I’m a flexible person :D) and are followed by a very interesting atmosphere (a post-apocalyptic French winter), some nastiness here and there and, especially, perfect looking mutants. In the end I had a lot of fun, but there’s plenty that prevents the highest rating: a pretty ordinary story (but with a nice core premise), unlikeable characters (with one exception) and an excessively frantic camera. That said, Mutants is not a taint on the French horror new wave. (18/11/2009)