Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

fedor8 If this movie had been made in the 50s, it would have been called "I Was Pregnant with Child from a Zombie".We've all grown accustomed to French movies lacking logic and credibility; they've been that way ever since French cinema's inception. Where the movie succeeds is visual realism; other than that, forget about it. If one day the French learn to add intelligence and sense to their slick directorial/visual style, they will make the best movies in the world. But until that happens, they will keep churning out a very mixed bag of filmic debris.The first criticism: rather than give us slow, dull-witted – i.e. traditional - zombies, we get an army of fast-moving killing-machines, each zombie as versed in hand-to-hand combat as a Green Beret. In such a world, there wouldn't be any human survivors at all. Imagine a handful of humans fighting against millions of Green Berets who never tire, and who kill efficiently and at any opportunity. That's the premise here, and it's too stupid even for a dumb little zombie flick. I am surprised that the main characters lasted a minute, let alone a few days or weeks. This new and annoying trend of speedy zombies started in 2004's "Dawn of the Dead" has got to stop. God forbid Spielberg should start making zombie movies, because then they'd be intelligent as well as fast (hints: "Jurassic Park" and "Jaws"). A big part of the zombie "charm" is their stupidity and physical ineptness. Take away those two things and they become just like regular human psychos, and that's pointless and dull.Which brings me to the main criticism: in a speed-runner zombie-athlete apocalypse, the few human survivors would be forced to BAND TOGETHER. On the contrary, in this zombie flick most humans are as deadly to each other as the zombies are to them. Dunno, perhaps it's a French thing, this egotistic, everyone-for-themselves mentality, but it's not an approach that would get the (French) population very far – for very long - in a post-apocalyptic speedy-zombie environment. In reality, a threat as extreme as record-breaking 100-meter-sprint zombies would force all remaining humans to swiftly unite. The people least likely to survive in such a scenario are precisely the kind of sociopathic characters that infest this dumb movie; a sociopath is unable to function within a group, but collective effort and mutual support would certainly be the only path to survival. So why do we have so many sociopaths here as remnants of humanity? Perhaps all of France is that way, dunno. Or the script is stupid: that's possible also.A white couple is held HOSTAGE (?!) by a uniformed black woman with a deep voice. They are absurdly ambushed by an autistic kid at a gas station. How the hell a mentally-challenged kid gets to survive while everyone else succumbs to the zombie invasion is anybody's guess. Idiotically enough, the white woman insists on bringing along this dangerous autistic fella (who attacks people and zombies alike, randomly), the result of which is a heated argument with their black female captor, and an ensuing battle results in the white woman's beau getting both shot – and infected. Yet it is HE who keeps apologizing to HER throughout the next (rather tedious) half-hour for becoming a zombie, instead of blaming her for bringing them in that predicament with her totally unreasonable request to bring along the highly unstable autistic teen.Eventually, a stereotypical French-movie gang of psychos predictably shows up, headed by a leader straight out of French Cinema's Guide For Overacting Your Butt Off In The Role Of A Bad Guy. The fact he looks like Phillip Kohlschreiber doesn't exactly help matters either. Worse yet, this supposedly tough-as-nails band of criminal misfits fail abysmally in their first crisis, and very easily get taken out by the Green Beret Olympic athletes. I mean the zombies.When all is said and done, it's once again style over substance – the age-old French movie problem.And frcrissakes, next time don't make it so easy for zombies to kill the humans: that reduces the tension, rather than increasing it. Sometimes less is more.

SpannersGerm669 Sonia (a nurse/doctor) and her husband Marco have survived a mutation outbreak and are now on the run. Finding a place to take refuge, Marco gets infected with some contaminated blood, and is desperate to find a cue. As the infection takes days to mutate, Sonia is in a desperate race against time to help the love of her life, and ultimately face up to the possibility that she may lose him.We have all had our fair share of standard Zombie/Infected films. Everybody seems to want to be the next George A. Romero, and unfortunately its a case of "seen one, seen them all". Then comes along David Morlet's "Mutants". A film about an apocalyptic outbreak, with plenty of flesh eating mutants, but this film serves so much more of a purpose than others that have come before it. To me, the story of the apocalypse was a side story, as the real focus was on the controversial use of "Euthanasia" ... such a debate has been raging over this topic, and the subtle way that David Morlet uses this topic, was superb. Is it OK to end the life of someone who has no more quality in theirs? Is it OK to put someone to sleep, forever? The question is constantly asked throughout the duration of the film, and shows the impact and heartbreak that even the thought can produce. The fact that this infection takes days to mutate and not instant, gives the viewer a false sense of a positive outcome. It shows that sometimes hope can be cruel, and we go along with the two characters, as things just go from bad to worse. Combining this strong psychological element with superb, isolated, cinematography, a strong soundtrack, above average acting, with gore and blood to add, this movie stands out as a very unique addition, to a very tired sub genre. Highly impressive!

daletheminoltaman I had watched this movie years ago and forgot the name. I just stumbled upon it again recently and was so happy when I seen the opening scene. This movie is GREAT and is a must see for zombie/horror fans, great scenery, great gore, great plot.The action starts in the first 2 seconds of the movie and the tense feeling does not let up through the entire movie.Good stuff, give it a watch you will not regret it! A great cold weather movie. With a nice original plot and location. No boring moments in this film. zombie, Infection Horror film.I love the remote location it was filmed in, very beautiful and adds to the tense feeling of the film.

ElijahCSkuggs So, I think that line above means, "Run of the mill" in french. As this film is exactly that. It's a nice heaping pile of been there done that unfortunately doesn't really excel in any one area that a truly satisfying horror film should.Mutants starts promisingly enough with a nice bloody car crash, and then a nice bloody fire-fight with some nice bloody results. Then the survivors go to this hospital where there is more scenes of bloody stuff. And then there's some more shmucks getting in on the action...blood. But to be a bit more precise, there's a cannibalistic infection on the loose, and it's transferable by, you guessed it, blood. A bite does the trick. Anyways, we have a heroine as our lead, and a bunch of carefree characters causing trouble, and of course we have our incredibly Ork-like mutants running, growling and drooling (blood) all over the damn place. That's basically it.I like zombie/infected/rabid mutant type flicks, I really do. But I also like them to be...what's the word? Fun? Yeah, that fits...but that's not the word. Scary? That's good too, but that ain't it. Hmmm...entertaining? Yeah, that's good. Entertaining. This movie wasn't very entertaining. With a strange combination of using quick cuts and fast pacing during the action, and slow plodding shots during any other scene, it's comes off a bit...off. The action scenes, like I said, were bloody, and that's basically all this movie has going for it. As the emotional factor was barely there, and what was there was cliché.On the plus side, it's got some nice production values. The blood looks great, the Ork-like mutants are solid, the camera is crisp, the scenery is beautiful, blah blah blah! Combine all those nice things with a bloody mutant flick with a decent amount of bullets flying around, and you got yourself a seemingly cool sounding movie. But with so many of these films out there, there's gotta be some sort of hierarchy. Unfortunately for us, it doesn't rank that high on the list.If you're expecting anything but a nice lil infected film, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. This does not become another solid French outing, but instead jumps into the pile of pigs whose snorts sound like they're saying 'you almost had something there, buddy'.....yep.