After encountered the mutated beings of a strange virus in the French countryside, a woman struggles to survive the ravenous creatures as they continually decimate those she comes into contact with while trying desperately to get away from them.This one turned out pretty decent if not overly spectacular or mildly irritating. When dealing with the creature's attacking, this one is a ton of fun, with them adapting the fun tactic of beating and wildly scratching and pounding their victim before they consume them, leaving it incredibly brutal and gory during those moments, and that they come mostly in the second-half gives it a really frantic and frenetic pace that makes it all the more enjoyable. Even the violence dished out to them makes for some fun, with them being shot up, entangled in barbed wire, set on fire and bashed to a pulp, among other fun activities, and the action-packed chases, escapes and battles are a lot of fun. It does tend to get lost in a rather drawn-out middle segment where she just seems to wander around looking for help and not really doing anything of any importance during these times, since it's quite pace, lack of action and tons of time devoted to accomplishing nothing really wear themselves out. Still, it's not too bad of an effort.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.

When I bought this movie from Amazon I hadn't heard about it before, and I came upon it by sheer luck as I was browsing through a search of zombie movies. So I read the description and thought it sounded alright.Now, the term zombies was used, although I think that term is relative. Because the creatures in this movie aren't really zombies as per the typical zombie term. They are showing some level of intelligence and they are quite fast and agile, running around at high speeds. For me, that doesn't really work and doesn't qualify as a typical zombie. No. For me, zombies are slow, shambling, brain-dead undead beings, husks of their former selves.Putting that aside, zombies or not, "Mutants" isn't a bad movie. It was shot in a very nice location, and there is a sense of isolation brooding in the movie. And the movie is good in building up a slowly growing sense of dread, as the events occur.And mind you that the movie is in French, if that might discourage you. I didn't catch up on that fact before I got the DVD and checked the backside of the cover. I don't mind foreign movies at all, just a friendly heads up if you got a thing against movies in other languages.I wasn't familiar with anyone in this movie, and that worked out well for me, because then there was no associating the actors/actresses with other of their previous roles. And the people in the movie actually did good jobs with their given roles."Mutants" had a good special effects crew on it, and the mutants (or zombies, as you prefer) did look good. However, I don't fully understand how Marco's face could have changed that much in so little time. But hey, who am I to understand how this disease works? There is a lot of good action scenes in "Mutants", and they are well executed. And the movie also holds a good amount of character building and lets you get to feel for the characters.All in all, "Mutants" is a good thriller, however I was sort of disappointed as I was expecting more of a typical zombie movie. "Mutants" isn't a bad movie at all, just don't watch it with the expectations of a Romero zombie movie, "Mutants" is more in the likes of "28 Days (or Weeks) Later".

Since there have been more zombie movies than talk shows coming out during the past ten years, it's becoming very difficult for directors/scriptwriters to surprise the fans with something new and original. This French effort tries to achieve this through blending the zombie mayhem with a tale of true love. Like "Zombie Honeymoon" already tried back in 2004, "Mutants" revolves on a woman who loyally stands by the side of her man even though he's going through several phases of "zombification". In a completely desolate and daunt snowy landscape, ambulance drivers Marco and Sonia are ambushed by mutants (victims of a worldwide virus) and Marco gets infected. Sonia, who is strangely immune for the virus, takes him to an abandoned army facility and tries to delay the impact of the virus as long as possible. "Mutants" is slightly better than the aforementioned "Zombie Honeymoon", simply because the atmosphere is much grittier and the situation more hopeless. As a viewer, you also grow to care for Sonia a lot more than you would for the averagely stereotypical protagonist in any other random zombie movie, and it definitely helps that the gorgeous Hélène de Fougerolles gives away a wonderful performance. "Mutants" is also a very gruesome and gory flick, although without being exploitative. The gratuitous zombie kills/killings are kept to a modest amount, but the make-up effects are excessively nauseating. That's a positive comment, mind you! In all honesty, this is a very decent and admirable horror movie, yet for some reason I can't be overly enthusiastic about it. The wholesome felt very derivative and mundane, definitely not a film I'd bother to see again or even recommend to someone else.

So, I think that line above means, "Run of the mill" in french. As this film is exactly that. It's a nice heaping pile of been there done that unfortunately doesn't really excel in any one area that a truly satisfying horror film should.Mutants starts promisingly enough with a nice bloody car crash, and then a nice bloody fire-fight with some nice bloody results. Then the survivors go to this hospital where there is more scenes of bloody stuff. And then there's some more shmucks getting in on the action...blood. But to be a bit more precise, there's a cannibalistic infection on the loose, and it's transferable by, you guessed it, blood. A bite does the trick. Anyways, we have a heroine as our lead, and a bunch of carefree characters causing trouble, and of course we have our incredibly Ork-like mutants running, growling and drooling (blood) all over the damn place. That's basically it.I like zombie/infected/rabid mutant type flicks, I really do. But I also like them to be...what's the word? Fun? Yeah, that fits...but that's not the word. Scary? That's good too, but that ain't it. Hmmm...entertaining? Yeah, that's good. Entertaining. This movie wasn't very entertaining. With a strange combination of using quick cuts and fast pacing during the action, and slow plodding shots during any other scene, it's comes off a bit...off. The action scenes, like I said, were bloody, and that's basically all this movie has going for it. As the emotional factor was barely there, and what was there was cliché.On the plus side, it's got some nice production values. The blood looks great, the Ork-like mutants are solid, the camera is crisp, the scenery is beautiful, blah blah blah! Combine all those nice things with a bloody mutant flick with a decent amount of bullets flying around, and you got yourself a seemingly cool sounding movie. But with so many of these films out there, there's gotta be some sort of hierarchy. Unfortunately for us, it doesn't rank that high on the list.If you're expecting anything but a nice lil infected film, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. This does not become another solid French outing, but instead jumps into the pile of pigs whose snorts sound like they're saying 'you almost had something there, buddy'.....yep.