Mute

Mute is ludicrous, but within the confines of its referential logic, also pretty cool.

It manages to be both bizarre and boring. While I admire Jones’ inventive details...the film simply looks cheap.

The references, conscious and not, serve as constant reminders to the audience of other, better, movies, rendering Mute more atonal hodgepodge than carefully orchestrated pastiche.

Fans of Moon and Source Code be warned: Mute is sadly, almost tragically, not worth the wait.

If this is what the excruciating finished film looks like, what manner of dreck must Mr. Bowie’s son have left on the cutting room floor?

Mute is so slow and arbitrarily over-plotted that it's difficult to believe that Jones also directed the spry and enjoyable Moon and Source Code.

Mute is a slog, and a depressing one; as Netflix sci-fi goes, it’s not as abjectly inept as The Cloverfield Paradox, but it’s perhaps even more disappointing given the talented filmmaker involved.

I liked it. Maybe folks just can't handle a main character who doesn't talk? Western civilization doesn't really value silence.

Nice cyberpunk setting, as a fan, I was interested from the beginning. I love sci-fi movies taking place in Berlin. Unfortunately, the plot and main character were a bit pain in the... eye, even despite his faith, which is rather uncommon theme for cyberpunk. It has a few really good and eye-catching moments, plus I like the idea of showing difficulties of a mute man in the world of future, but it was overall boring and story feels ragged. But hey, it WAS NOT that bad! I think it deserves a 5-6 rating (or 7 if you are a die-hard cyberpunk fan) for nice visuals and for bringing up a difficult subject to discuss.

A dystopian revenge tale with a standard and somewhat cliche plot that moves mostly at tortoise pace with a few interesting aspects. Although this really doesn't amount to anything really until the last 20 min, it has some decent futuristic visuals and a ridiculously entertaining Paul Rudd villain portrayal that is absurd.

Mute is bargain bin Blade Runner. It has some ideas here and there, but nothing is properly fleshed out or memorable. It's sad to see a science fiction film this feeble and uninteresting come from the man who made Moon and Source Code.

It's like "Nicolas Winding Refn meets Blade Runner", which sounds like it should be amazing, but instead it just feels like a bunch of cyberpunk iconography thrown in in the hopes of making the story less boring. It doesn't. It really doesn't. It makes the same mistake many other bad movies do. It sets its story in a sci-fi or fantasy world and completely wastes it a generic crime thriller plot that doesn't let the world be of any use. It's also way too long. The longer it went the less I liked it, which is a shame because it actually started pretty strong. Alexander Skarsgård and Paul Rudd are pretty good though. The visuals too.