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Information
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 126 min.
- Director
- Duncan Jones
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
- Rating *
- 5.4
- Votes *
- 18,774
- Checks
- 932
- Favs
- 25
- Dislikes
- 59
- Favs/checks
- 2.7% (1:37)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
As a fan of Duncan Jones' first couple SF movies, I had high expectations for Mute. Alas, they were dashed. It's all a bit of a mess. Another Blade Runner riff visually (between this and Altered Carbon, did Netflix get the cityscapes wholesale?) even if it's Berlin. The noir thriller concerns a missing girl and the mute Luddite who loves her and tries to find her. Structurally, it keeps forgetting him in favor of Paul Rudd's AWOL American soldier/doctor involved with underworld types. It takes entirely too long to show us what might tie these two protagonists together, the latter seeming like a distraction, but still more interesting than Alexander Skarsgård's non-verbal hero. And then there's the icky story thread about a pedophile, that really isn't proven necessary. The resolution is all kinds of slapdash. By the end, you might even wonder if Mute needed its sci-fi setting. Or for its protagonist to be mute (diversity aside). Even its links to Moon seem indulgent. What happened there? 6 years 2 months ago -
badblokebob
It isn't anything like as unremittingly terrible as some reviews would have you believe, but it is a tonally strange film. I'm not sure it works as a whole, but bits do. 6 years 2 months ago -
Earring72
Overlong, Dissapointing entry from great director D. Jones. Muddled unpleasant and sloppy story. Visually great but future setting doesn't add anything to the story. 5 years 6 months ago