While many sites don’t have to review The New Mutants, one of Hollywood Reporter’s film critics in Paris shared his verdict on the Marvel movie, and that’s not good. They begin by explaining that the only way to locate a “revealing experience” is to never have noticed Buffy the Vampire Slayer, A Nightmare on Elm Street or a mental mystery about Asylum.
This worsens, as the industry points out, the film “will provide a case of deja vu,” adding that Josh Boone’s opinion of those characters is “generic and, at best, tends to be sincere.”
“Even the handful of twists that ended up to be vaguely new, like a love story between two of the heroines, end up feeling familiar, possibly the reason Boone inserts a clip of an episode of Buffy that looks the same,” the review continues. . “The film is rarely as scary as it can be, a fact that can also be explained by the desire to have a PG-13 ranking, but in the end we just don’t forget the recent horror sets for young people like that has worked much better.”
Praising the performances of the female cast members, she concludes with a terrible one: “It’s a shame that the film that presented them doesn’t have the same impact. As for the mutant franchise, she never makes her last fight.” Now it’s starting to make sense that Disney hasn’t organized any press screenings.
In the end, it’s hard to believe someone risking their fitness to see The New Mutants this weekend, especially if it’s going to be indicative of other reviews that might follow soon.
What do you think?