Review: Mute Is Proof Netflix Should Just Stop With The Movies
- Feb 24, 2018
- 1 min read
Not even Duncan Jones, the mind behind the excellent Moon and Source Code, is safe from crappy Netflix films. It's time to stop.
When his girlfriend suddenly drops off the face of the Earth, a mute bartender, he's also Amish for some reason, Leo (Alexander Skarsgard) delves into the seedy underbelly of a cyberpunk Berlin to find her. Meanwhile Cactus, yes really, (Paul Rudd) is using that same ring of crime to try and escape the city after he goes AWOL. In short, the whole thing is a big bad mess.
A mute trying to find a missing person is an interesting story. An AWOL soldier trying to escape a city in lockdown with the help of criminals is an interesting story. But when you try to combine these stories into a single, interwoven tale, you get Mute, a nice looking but ultimately disappointing film. It's not all bad. The performances are decent and Neo-Berlin is nicely realized but after that point, the characters are most assholes, so why would the viewer care about them, the plot is so far up its own backside that it starts to emerge from is mouth again, the finale is painfully extended over a 20 minute period and the big showdown that everything is leading is mostly offscreen.
So no, I cannot in good conscience recommend Mute. It's yet another failure of Netflix's film department, one that should never have happened. Avoid it as best you can.
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