In the future, the world will be ruled by attractive people, so a group of
unattractive (very unattractive) terrorists kidnap the daughter of a billionaire
and ask for a $10 million ransom. Then the gang sees a news report saying it’s
actually $100 million! Their boss lied to them! They start fighting among
themselves and crash their hooptie spaceship onto a mining planet that looks a lot
like the mining planet of Pandora in 2009’s Borderlands video game. More stuff
happens, but it’s all really sweaty and gnarly-looking. And not in a good way.
It’s not often that I find myself watching an (entire) movie that’s gross to
physically look at twice, but I wanted to revisit ACCION MUTANTE because I
remember buying a VHS bootleg of it back in the 1990’s (from Blackest Heart
Media, I think) and I disliked it. Watching it again on a crystal clear
Blu-ray…it still looks like shit.
Undercooked story, boring acting, illogical senses of pain and healing that make
pretty much everything meaningless, lots of sweaty unwashed people everywhere,
dumb gunfights where everybody is shooting hundreds of bullets all over the
places willy-nilly, zero characters that I felt any connection or empathy with,
dumb ending that resolves nothing.
Watch ACCION MUTANTE if you want, I just felt the entire thing to be meh.
That said, I do appreciate any inspiration it had on the Borderlands series.
Those first few games were amazing. Part 4 was a snoozer though. Yawn!
Writer and Director Alex de la Iglesia would go on to make 2013’s
WITCHING AND BITCHING
which I really enjoyed.
Pointless side note: I found a newspaper article stating that ACCION MUTANTE was
set in 2092, but I don't remember that being shown in the actual movie.
