The New Mutants review: The good, the bad, and the ugly
By Mark Lynch
The Bad: It was over before it started
The problem with the New Mutants’ story isn’t something that could have been easily fixed. Before you knew it, you were at the end of the movie and had more questions. You can’t have a team and a story like this and expect to have all the answers in one film. Unfortunately, we knew this was a one-off. That meant all of the potential characters and moments we could have seen going forward were likely never going to happen. As a fan of the X-Men, it’s frustrating. Especially since 20th Century Fox kept teasing Mr. Sinister and won’t give him to us.
They’ve teased Sinister in X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool 2, and now New Mutants. That’s three times in the last four years we’ve gotten hints with nothing to show for it. It isn’t just Sinister that was teased. Illyana’s nightmares seem to come from the Sapien League – a group of fanatics that hate mutants. A group run by the deplorable and horribly scarred Leper Queen. That’s two possible villains that could have been great in future projects. And let’s not even get into them bringing in Lockheed without Kate Pryde.
The creative team can’t be blamed for this. They were most likely writing this movie in hopes for more projects. As of now, it isn’t looking good. If Marvel Studios decides to keep the cast (and they should) they could add onto a good foundation.