Mutant World (2014)

Low budget sci-fi that tries hard. Earth has little over an hour to prepare for a meteor on a collision course. A small group of doomsday theorists and military types have been working on a bunker for a long time just waiting for to be used. Ten years after the meteor strike, a search party leaves the bunker looking for solar panels, medical supplies and food. They discover the world has been taken over by mutants that rule the nights. The search party meet a mysterious traveler that calls herself, The Preacher (Ashanti), who lets it be known there is a safe haven. Disjointed plot, elementary level effects and a lot of actors trying to do too much. David Winning takes credit as director. Singer Ashanti does a commendable job as does Holly Deveaux. Other cast members: Jason Cermak, Amber Marshall, Megan Tracz, David LeReaney, Greg Lawson and Sydney Bell. Kim Coates makes a cameo appearance. Redeeming is the eye candy!

I switched on it for i think five minutes to see something like this: Bunker doors open Group of young actors step out wearing pristine military gear, one actor says some dumb exposition like "been down there ten years, would rather die than spend another day down there" all proceed to speak perfect cliché military lingo to some old guy father figure "ten-four we got a fox-trot code 9"(something the old guy taught them?), something really stupid about implausible & impracticable solar panels happens, A military vehicle appears out of nowhere and apparently "purrs like a kitten" somehow after 10 years of presumably being totally inactive.They drive up to a house, guy checks radiation levels or something dumb, something with two arms and walking on two legs opens a door and makes a noise, everyone starts uncontrolled firing at it for absolutely no reason(something the old guy taught them?). Another obvious human pops around a corner and they also shoot it for no reason."what is this?" looks down at obvious human body "SOME KINDA WERID ANIMAL OR SOMETHING" touches it, shows man with green face paint, "raaar" opens eyes with terrible CGI effect.that's when I changed the channel. My brain couldn't take anymore. I feel bad for anyone who continued to watch it.How do movies like this get made? How do you get a budget to make a first draft script made into a movie? I've literally read better scripts online that will never be made into a film.I can see this being on an 8 movie pack in a wall-mart 5$ garbage bin, but how the hell did it make it to an actual movie channel on satellite television? Mind boggling. It literally made me mad.

Okay the whole premise is rather out there but it is a watchable enough movie. The most interesting part of the plot is how some the female actors are the empowered ones. A bit of switch especially for a post apocalyptic world scenario. I definitely liked that aspect. So there is a group of underground survivors, some of whom must come out when they lose power. They run into the mutants but I don't understand some of the stuff that they do. I mean green eyes, green blood?? Then the mutant giant that saves the semi-little girl, talks to her intelligently, and then gets killed by the normo's. So the underground retreat is located and overrun by the mutant's, the survivors make it to a town that is suppose to be mutant clear. The squad that was sent out earlier has also found it. Now this is another area I don't understand, turns out the towns people are only part time mutants. They turn mutant only during the night, I guess some writer saw one too many vampire movies? Those that survive the mutants turning blow up the town with the mutants in it. Turns out there is a sanctuary called haven but is really Cheyenne. The remaining survivors make it there and all is well?? Ashanti has a small role as the Preacher. While she looks good her acting is wooden, IMO.

Terrible acting by people you actually don't necessarily want on TV. Embarrassing special effects not even expected on Syfy. Bumpy and partially broken plot, i.e. scenes don't connect. What really struck me was the obvious attempt to swap the gender roles, i.e. the girl officers played the strong and tough ones whilst the guys were dumb making all sorts of stupid mistakes and statements + going for the sucker moves. Even 10 years after a meteor hit really not so credible. This might have been a kinky idea for a 90s movie but in 2014 I would have expected the prdoucers to be a bit more sober about gender aspects...Bottom line is there was no way I could watch it to the end...