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Mutant X
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16-10-2001 10:20am#1
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I lasted 10 minutes, just after the first advert break.
Basically it seemed like a real X-Men rip-off, but without the likes of Gambit and Wolverine which made X-Men quite cool.
1. The Opening Scene
Total Matrix rip-off. Way overboard on the bullet-time flo-mo stuff, which gets old really fast IMHO if every goddamn movie for the past 2 years has tried to do it seems.
2. Plot
Straight X-Men take. The "lead" actress is basically like Rogue, being rescued and is naive compared to the other "Mutant X's". Of course, straight from X-Men as well is when she says "ooohoo, I don't have any powers, and am not a freak like you two" or something to that effect.
3.And it was just *there* I stopped watching. Enough. The guy character says "Freak?" and wanders off supposedly really angry, and of course the other female lead makes a threatening defensive expression with glowing eyes.
That was all I could take. Agents chasing the first female lead at the beginning.......it was all too Matrix but without the novelty. They might as well have not bothered making this series at all.
I remember renting what appeared to be a pilot for an X-Men style series around 6 years ago, called "Generation X". Basically the same stuff, sans bullet-time and excessive camera styling which the Matrix gave us.
The acting is truly aweful, very textbook characters, etc., . The whole mutant vs. normal thing is great in X-Men which was takling issues like racism, etc., at the time but this is 2001 for christ's sake. Who would say if two XMen style mutants kicked some ass would get all "ooooh, you two are freaks". This is a different decade/era and the reactions and plot should at least reflect that. Like I said, seen it all before done much better.
This is the equivalent of Westlife in a TV series.
It's a combo of the Matrix for style (excessive leather jacket usage by people who really really *really* look wussy regardless), XMen plot mixed with a little Dark Angel just to get some much needed foxy ladies
. I won't start on Dark Angel, but this is the same genetic-engineering-gone-wrong/rebellion **** and Dark Angel wasn't very good to begin with.
And the green Matrix-code going up the screen at the intro is just too much; it's *just* like watching the "matrix numbers and letters stuff" on the LCD monitors in the movie (like "all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead....."). The people who made this should be beaten. Severely.0 -
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