I recently reviewed a horror film called Carved that I described as a cure for insomnia. The film was boring and manipulative and not really worth your time. By comparison, Mutants makes that movie look like a barrel of excitement. Mutants is a movie that seems to have been made without anyone actually looking to see what they were making. The resulting movie is completely dull, totally uninteresting, and not worth anyones time.

The advertising claims that Mutants is "28 Days Later meets the apocalyptic I Am Legend." What? This movie is nothing like either of those films. This is the sort of movie you will stumble across at 2 in the morning on the SyFy Channel before finally nodding off. Again, I have to wonder if anyone actually looked at the film before writing up the advertising. Honestly, someone should have read the script before greenlighting it, or at least take a look at the dailies to see how bad everything looked.

Since no one seemed to look, the movie was finished and is now being marketed to the unsuspecting masses using the same cover art as was used for another low budget flick called The Salena Incident (aka Alien Invasion Arizona). Not only that, the critter on the cover looks nothing like anything that appears in Mutants.

Now, I am sure you are all wondering just what Mutants is about. They probably should have gone with something other than the incredibly generic sounding Mutants. Especially when you consider there are no real mutants to be found.

Anyway, Mutants centers on an evil company that makes food additives. More specifically, they focus on sugar. Yes, sugar. They have hired a Russian scientist, who is the son of some crazy guy who experimented on prisoners with various types of poison and such, to create an additive that is more addictive than cocaine or heroin. If you are thinking that sugar is already more addictive, you would be right, but that again falls on the fact no one read the script first.

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