The New Mutants review: The good, the bad, and the ugly
By Mark Lynch
Here’s everything good, bad, and ugly about The New Mutants.
The New Mutants was released in theaters back in August and achieved the worst opening weekend for an X-Men release to date. In defense of the Marvel movie, it’s unfair to judge it on the numbers because it was released during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Now that The New Mutants is available to rent and buy, people can watch it without any risks. Well, other than the possibility of wasting your hard-earned money.
The good news is this writer is here to let you know everything good, bad, and ugly about 20th Century Fox’s last X-Men project.
The Good: The acting
From start to finish, every cast member in The New Mutants played their parts perfectly. This really isn’t that shocking considering the caliber of actors in the cast.
Maisie Williams portrayed the insecure Rhane Sinclair better than this writer could have expected. Anya Taylor-Joy’s Magik was everything you could have wanted (minus the character’s racist comments – which were, of course, not the actress’ fault). She was the angry, deadly, and scary warrior she is in the comics. Charlie Heaton (Sam Guthrie) has been great in Stranger Things and he’s even better here while Alice Braga (Cecilia Reyes) was superb. Despite how this writer feels about how she was portrayed, she played the villain better than a lot of people expected. Henry Zaga (Sunspot) and Blu Hunt (Dani Moonstar) killed it as well.
The New Mutants has many things that may be criticized, the performances are the one thing that can’t.