Mute

I would like to apologize to every single movie that I have ever accused of being poorly written. 'Mute' has made it painfully clear to me that I didn't know what the hell I was talking about. And when I say sorry, I want it to be known, that this isn't your Kevin Spacey ‘sorry you got so offended that I grabbed you by your cock' apology. No, this is the James Gunn 'I have been an asshole, and I'll be a better man from now on' soul searching kind.

A border-line offensive misfire from a really promising director. It's an embarrassingly poorly written cliché bonanza and an excruciatingly uninteresting watch that feels like it goes on and on forever. And in an insufferably awful role, an over-the-top Rudd is both unfunny and super annoying.

Trying to suffer this plate of uncooked haggis after dining on Blade Runner 2049 is like trying to suffer a plate of uncooked haggis after watching Blade Runner 2049. Every minute the mute Russian is not using his enhanced senses (senses enhanced because he is mute--a well known cinema fact) to kick ass, but rather to sulk around silently (as mutes are wont to do), is a minute you wish you were living in the bleakest of timelines, eating foodcubes made of insect protein and mushrooms.

I'm surprised by how boring this was. I had pretty high hopes for this movie, as it looked so visually interesting. All in all, it was super interesting to look at, but following the story was just a slog. I really enjoyed Paul Rudd, but that's one of only a few parts I truly enjoyed. Not worth the two hours, sadly.

A difficult story and premise to succeed with. From the start this movie suffers from a handicap much like its main character. Alexander Skarsgard made a valiant effort in a severely flawed role. Paul Rudd was also stunted by the role. Full of really creepy undertones and set in a dark dystopian future. The plot was often confusing and jumbled. The story progressed in an almost haphazard way. It was hard to get invested in the characters but, I found it as entertaining as it was frustrating.

Duncan,maaaaaate,nooooooo. I had such high hopes but this is just bad. The effects are subpar in a year with BR2049,it looks like a TV movie. It crawls along and the main character's "investigation" is laughable.Don't even get me started on the sudden pedophile subplot, that in the next scene is forgotten in an odd change of tone. I can't believe he's been working on this as a passion project for 15 years,there's no material here.

This is a movie where the badness sneaks up on you. It doesn't seem so bad at first but the deeper you get the more you realize there's nothing here. There's barely a story, barely a theme or idea, barely any characters, and barely a style (only what's been culled from "Blade Runner" and even then nothing that informs the story at all). A dramatically inert, dull, and frustrating film.

Très sous-estimé. La plus grande qualité du film, c'est son acteur. Le grand, fort et charismatique Alexander Skarsgard. Sa volonté à tout prix de retrouver sa Juliette m'a déchiré le cœur. Le tout, sans prononcer un mot.

instead of watching this you could have consensual sex with someone you love and who loves you back. live without regrets.

A terribly disappointing effort from a director who had shown immense promise in the sci fi genre. Mute was Duncan Jones' passion project, and it's certainly an attempt to present an epic sci fi noir, however the film is incredibly disjointed, contrived, has frequently dreadful performances, and many cliché or predictable plot points. This won't kill his career, but Mute certainly doesn't enhance it and he may need to return to low budget fare similar to 'Moon' to rebuild his reputation.

Hey, remember when everyone loved Donnie Darko, and made sure to tell everyone, so Richard Kelly got carte blanche to do whateverthehell he wanted, and then we all found ourselves staring at Southland Tales? In the future, Netflix will rip off all your favourite movies to create "originals" that substitute ideas with style. And yet we will continue to pay them for it. There's your fucking dystopia.

This feels like someone making an arthouse movie based only on a pretentious teenager's description of what makes a good one; It's so nonsensical that it hurts to watch. The fish out of water storyline makes no sense cause he lives and works in this world, the visuals are too abrasive and have no cohesion, and the story unfolds in, again, nonsensical directions for most characters. The theme of technology vs simplicity was fairly executed, but no other element of Mute is worth talking about.

Mute is simply a boring film. Despite it’s neon-noir aesthetic and grimy European back-alley vibes, the film goes nowhere interesting for its excessive 2 hour runtime from begging to end. Rudd and Theroux have a few moments of levity here and there, but it's not enough to keep the film engage. Skarsgård shows he has charisma just at the end of the film, but makes it all the worse as he's playing the titular mute throughout.

I honestly have no idea how this turned out so poorly with a great concept, excellent cast, and promising director. Moon is starting to look like an outlier, rather than an auteur breakthrough. Almost unwatchably disappointing.

While "Mute" does borrow from plenty of other sci-fi movies, to call it derivative is a little harsh. There's a great deal of imagination here, it's a fleshed out future, with elements considered that I wouldn't have thought of. As a die hard sci-fi fan, I had a good time, but I can recognize that there are pacing issues and it's main character is simply not very compelling, nor is his love interest. But the other supporting characters display a complexity and sleeze not often seen in film.

It is one thing to have your villain be a pervert, but it is something else entirely to have your cinematographer linger, on multiple occasions, on underage underwear. This disgusting choice, along with a fridged love interest and unoriginal art direction, offers strong argument to avoid this film, and powerfully overshadows the film's few strengths.

I really wanted to like it but the whole thing meanders, got boring when it really shouldn't have, and Alexander Skarsgard sucks yet again

Rudd and Theroux play a kind of updated psychopathic version of Gould and Sutherland in MASH, and the mute Amish protagonist is almost like an obstruction of the kind von Trier would gleefully impose upon a masochistically willing volunteer, but for all that the film is for the most part less bad than unpleasant, although burdened with a sentimental happy ending that fails to compensate for the nastiness the audience has had to endure for no clear reason. The futuristic gloss seems inessential.

"Mute" is derivative, in every sense of the word. Almost every thematic concept, visual wonder, or plot beat can be traced to another film. But what can never be disputed is that "Mute" is Duncan Jones' passion project, a film teeming with such love and care that you scarcely mind that you've seen it all before. The relationship between our voiceless, Amish protagonist and the innately technological world and people around him, however, is a unique hook, and enough to make things interesting.

I tend to roll my eyes whenever someone says: "If you like Blade Runner, you're gonna love this movie!" This is why.

Jones has been getting progressively worse, and this is coming from someone who actually enjoyed Warcraft as a dumb fantasy flick. I say this all the time but I love Rudd because he's one of the most charming actors out there, but he continues to pick a lot of crappy roles. When he's on screen this is relatively fun but aside from that it's just a rip-off of better sci-fi flicks, especially visually. Skarsgard is given nothing, and the script is terrible.

I love a good cyberpunk setting with all the horrible things of a strange futuristic city thrown into the mix. Just trash people, cheap thrills, and all the stuff that makes the cyberpunk world so bleak, and it's kind of here. Kind of. The issue with this movie is that it is just all over the place. It's difficult to follow any single line of the plot because the mind drifts off to other things. The script could have done with a lot of edits, making the plot thrilling, and putting more at stake.

One of the most boring movies I've seen. It's a great setting, pity they made one of the worst films to put in it. Terrible direction as the acting is all over the top soppy sentimental, like a Hallmark film. Glacial pacing makes the first 20 minutes felt like an eternity.

Exceptional filming and special effects, but overall the story is tedious.

shweeeeeeeet cyberpunk goodness

Watch it at 150% speed and it's not that bad. It's not an action, suspense/thriller, or sci-fi movie. There's a bit of mystery, but it's not interesting. The "sci-fi" aspects are just window dressing and unimportant to the film. It's "Taken 2" without the fight scenes. So if you're not looking for what this movie isn't it's really not that terrible. Paul Rudd is good in it, as he's finally not playing a clown, and the acting generally is fine. It's fine, skippable, but not bad.

"Mute" did a poor job of developing both the story and characters. It might have been their desire to have us discover things along with our mute hero, but it doesn't work. It's not a film I'd recommend. However, it is watchable.

The decline continues for Duncan Jones.

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One can sense Mute really was a very personal project for it's director - much of the emotional content is there. The series is nevertheless somewhat of a disappointment, it's world feels inconsistent and is stylistically messy, even after being developed over a decade (or perhaps that is the reason).

Oyunculuklar, mekan tasarımları, müzik ve kamera çok çok iyi.

.Half-assed uninspired riff on Blade Runner aesthetics. WHY THE FUCK DOES PAUL RUDD GET LEAD ROLES? I will never understand his appeal. He should be reserved for supporting comedic roles only. Here he does his best to emulate Robert Downey Jr by way of Harrison Ford and fails. His presence jars an already shit film further down the toilet. Any hopes of Duncan Jones making something decent post-Moon goes down with it.

It's kind of quirky but not overwhelming. Opinion here : http://movie-freak.be/2018/04/mute-2018/ [Full review]

2018/03/18

worth a watch

Nice build-up but a crappy ending ruined it.

Pfft

This should have been so good. Sadly, everything is wrong about it. The story makes no sense, the dialogue is naive, visuals are kind of 'meh', even the music feels wrong. With all the people involved in the project I really wanted to like this one. Come on Netflix, you know you can do better.

Brightly colored sci-fi is usually my thing but this was just garish. Clearly supposed to be set in the future but feels like its just 2018, neon-edition. It lowkey panders to the armchair activist crowd in the same way that MCU films do. The dystopic elements are basically that the world is run by rich assholes and their jingoist criminal henchmen and everyone else is a sex worker. Gives the whole world a sort of artificial vibe in a genre that needs naturalistic world building to be convincing

A pleasant sci-fi film that subverts most of what the genre is used for. Not the film I expected, but still one that I enjoyed.

Passes the time.

This is the most confused movie I've ever seen.

This had some good parts and some not so good parts but I'll echo what others have said about it being disjointed. Still worth a look though.

moon'u çeken adam nasıl warcraft çeker diye düşünürken moon'un tamamen bir tesadüf olduğunu düşündürmeye başladı jones. blade runner ile mash'in buluşması fikri iyi anlamda tuhaf geliyor ama filmin bunun ötesinde bir hikayeye ihtiyacı olduğu aşikar çünkü harbiden blade runner üzerine varyasyonlara mash sahneleri serpiştirilmiş gibi.