Eye Candy #313 - "The Mutant Chronicles"

The Mutant Chronicles:  This is a sci-fi film that pulls heavily from steam punk fiction.  On a future Earth, where humanity uses steam technology to power aircraft and weaponry, the planet is attacked by necro-mutants, unleashed from a buried city during trench warfare between two neighboring super-corporations.  The necro-mutants are extremely durable and violent killing machines.  In six weeks time, they overrun much of the planet, with the remaining human  survivors abandoning the planet.  Meanwhile, a small team of hand-picked soldiers and combatants, led by a priest, Brother Samuel (Ron Perlman), are given a suicide mission and tasked with finding the “machine” responsible for creating the necro-mutants and destroying it before the planet is lost.  Had a better cast than I was expecting, with Thomas Jane and Benno Furmann joining Mr. Perlman, as well as some other noticeable character actors (provided you notice any character actors to begin with) like the immortal Sean Pertwee.  Not total garbage, but exposition heavy and with ambitions much loftier than its capabilities, with great heaping gobs of blue screen special effects and a conclusion that doesn’t really successfully conclude or explain anything.   The script for this could have been tighter, though in his defense, this is only the second feature for director Simon Hunter.  Woodchuck sez, “Coulda been, shoulda been.”