We just released the first 'Special Edition' episode of Atomic Array and - what do you know - it's about Mutant Chronicles.
We spoke with director Simon Hunter about the film, and also spoke with author Matt Forbeck about the novelization.
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First I'm kind of surprised that it appears to be coming out in the U.S. just now - i bought the DVD sometime in the later half of the last year (in Germany). It is a nice splatter SciFi Movie (certainly better than any of the Resident Evil movies...although that doesn't say much). The strange mixture of WW1 and SciFi technology looks great on screen, the more or less famous actors play unspectacular roles, their characters never developed beyond the basics. A nice action flic - certainly one of the better roleplaying game movies - no more, no less.
Is it anything like the roleplaying game? I had a copy of it years and years ago; the setting seemed really interesting to me, what with Venus being a steaming jungle, Mars a vast desert, and the moon with a giant atmospheric bubble around it.
Is it anything like the roleplaying game? I had a copy of it years and years ago; the setting seemed really interesting to me, what with Venus being a steaming jungle, Mars a vast desert, and the moon with a giant atmospheric bubble around it.
Quick answer: No.
Longer answer: I resembles the game as far as they share names. Also some organizations share names with those in the RPG. Other than that, not much. The reason for this though is the HUGE copout they did by making a movie about the backstory for MC. So the movie acctually takes place when earth is still inhabited and the humans get their first taste of the dark legion.
As someone else said, it's not a bad movie as far as action-flick go, but it has nothing on MC 1st edition as a RPG.
Sad acctually that they had all that wonderful backdrop to work with, the brotherhood, the legion, the corporation wars, and they go and do a sci-fi WWI movie.