I thought Mutant Chronicles is a sequel of XMen. I was wrong. It is a film adaption of the pen-and-paper role playing game set in the apocalyptic world originally published in 1993. The game was developed by the Swedish company Target Games as a successor of their earlier Mutant RPG series. The story happened in the distant future when the Earth’s natural resources were depleted by mankind and human race has to move to other planets to survive thus four leading corporations were formed. These corporations were designed based after the traditional nation-states, the Capitol (American Influenced), Bauhus (continental Europe), Mishima (Japanese) and the Imperial (British-inspired).

These four corporations battle one another for resources to sustain the survival of their communities. In one of the battles where the Capitol soldiers battles against the advancement of Bauhus, an ancient seal was broken and Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jane) and Nathan Rooker (Sean Pertwee) found themselves facing not the Bauhus but a new enemy: hideous necromutants, with bone blades that grow from their arms. The necromutants multiply by millions. In the game, they can resurrect dead heroes from the major corporations making them undefeatable.

Like in the game, the necromutants in the movie destroys anything before them making things seem hopeless. Constantine (John Malkovich), the leader of The Corporations, was about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents behind when the leader of the Brotherhood an ancient monastic order, Brother Samuel (Ron Perlman), approached him. Samuel is the keeper of the Chronicles, a book that prophesies the rise of the Mutants and the “Deliverer”, which Samuel believed to be himself, who will destroy the Mutants. He tried to convince Constantine that there is “Hope” in destroying the mutants. The Deliverer will need to travel into the depths of the planet to find the source of the mutants and destroys it.

All he needs is to have twenty best soldiers from the four corporations to accompany him and battle the mutants until they reach the source. Constantine was hesitant about it saying “what can these 20 soldiers do that their armies cannot” but Samuel was able to recruit Mitch and a handful other soldiers. Joining them are Steiner (Benno Furmann), an honor bound Bauhaus officer, Severian (Anna Walton) a sword-wielder, street fighter El Jesus(Luis Miguel), fearless beauty Duval (Devon Aoki) and stoic warrior Juba (Tom Wu). Together they became a small army who like Samuel believe and will not give up the thought that there is still hope in winning the battle against the mutants. And so their mission to venture into the very heart of the darkness to attempt to save the planet and humanity begins.

Movie Statistics:
Directed by Simon Hunter
Produced by Edward R. Pressman, Tim Dennison
Written by Philip Eisner, Stuart Hazeldine
Starring: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, Benno Fürmann, Sean Pertwee, John Malkovich, Anna Walton, Luis Echegaray, Tom Wu, Steve Toussaint, Pras Michel, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Curtis Walker
Music by Richard Wells
Cinematography: Geoff Boyle
Editing by Sean Barton, Alison Lewis
Released on October 10, 2008 (UK)
Country: United States
Language: English
Duration: 111 min.
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