The New Mutants is about five teenage mutants that undergo treatments at a secret institution. All the mutants have dangerous powers and unintentional blood on their hands and are under supervision until they learn to control their dangerous powers. The teens are trapped in the institution and invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories, their memories soon turn into terrifying realities as they start to question why they’re being held and who’s trying to destroy them. Dani Moonstar doesn’t yet know what her mutant powers are, and she is considered a danger to others. As Dani struggles to figure out what she can or can’t do, while romantically bonding with Rahne Sinclair, the teens begin to experience terrifying visions linked to their own respective traumas. But all is not as it seems.
The film takes place within X-Men world, but the randomness in the franchise negates much interconnectivity. There’s only a few verbal references to the X-Men and a slight reference to Charles Xavier. This makes the film seem like a spin-off that just happens to take place in an existing universe, rather than a continuation of the X-Men franchise.
The movie feels way too forced and does not seem necessary to watch in order to understand anything that will be happening in the X-Men’s franchises future. The movie fails to commit to being a fantasy or a horror movie, or a teen melodrama. Instead it offers components of all three and it just makes it a huge failure. Overall I don’t recommend seeing the movie, and it’s nothing to be excited for.
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