Review of The New Mutants (2020) by Warlok9 — 23 Nov 2020

Decently acted with excellent special effects. Well worth a watch for fans of the comic. Seeing Magik and Lockheed in live action was done quite well! Hopefully this won't be the last time we see this acted play Magik. She was really good. The other characters were portrayed fine, but Magik was the standout.

Now that all the good stuff is out of the way, I can't help feeling that the story was just not worthwhile. Having the whole thing revolve around one character's manifestations got boring. I could not help thinking that the story would have been better had the focus been on the characters working through their differences and eventually coming together to figure out that they are being groomed not for the x-men, but some other evil purpose. Then battling that entity. This was set up and is part of the movie of course, but the story never explains who was holding them, who was pulling the strings and why. It just gets brushed aside. Could have made an excellent tie-in to the larger franchise if they did it correctly.