Review of The New Mutants (2020) by Felixc — 31 Aug 2020

After a very long delay waiting for this film to finally hit theaters I am pleasantly impressed with it. I did see some reviews where they felt the film was “rushed” but honestly I don’t know what you would fill the time with.

The characters were fleshed out and each one showed a level of vulnerability and humanity that many films with longer run times didn’t do. I think people have become spoiled with MCU films and were expecting something within that realm.

This film was meant to be an introduction as well as small and intimate, that way each character gets some time to shine but also isn’t bogged down with unnecessary exposition and mindless filler. The graphics I have to say were very top notch and clearly they spent their budget where it needed to be unlike other films with a much bigger budget and wasted it on horrible CG (cough Black Panther cough).

The movie also didn’t waste my time with forced unnecessary humor and to me it worked in the films benefit because it made them feel more real. I also loved the link it had with another X-men film which made it feel that 20th century was going for an expanded universe which is a shame that it may never happen.