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Mute

2018

Duncan Jones

Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Florence Kasumba ...

4.6

3,595

Sci-Fi. Thriller Berlin. Forty years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca. Leo Beiler (Skarsgard), a mute bartender has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she's disappeared. But when Leo's search takes him deeper into the city's underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Rudd) seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can't tell if they can help, or who he should fear most. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Though undeniably dazzling in the visual department, 'Moon' director Duncan Jones' gimmicky future noir has nothing interesting to say."	NEU
United Kingdom	Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"A catastrophically misjudged riff on 'Blade Runner' with an astoundingly dull performance from Alexander Skårsgard (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Says less than it wants to (...) The handsomely downbeat atmospherics overwhelm its themes of love, parenthood, crime and punishment. The narrative doesn't quite coalesce"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ed Cumming Telegraph	"The script has none of the reserved cool which made 'Moon' so appealing (...) The plot hangs on relationships which simply don’t ring true (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Andrew Crump The Playlist	"[It] lacks mystery and depth (...) 'Mute' feels like a first draft begging for focus (...) What the hell is 'Mute' actually about?"	NEG
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"'Mute' is such a mystifying failure it will leave you speechless (...) In theaters, you may be inclined to see this mess through to the end. At home, you can just turn it off."	NEG
United States	Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times	"The references, conscious and not, serve as constant reminders to the audience of other, better, movies (...) Visually fluid and assured (...) It gets lost in a quagmire of influences.	NEU
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"A dull, empty exercise (...) A dystopian noir that’s neither especially compelling as a vision of the future nor as a hard-bitten mystery"	NEG
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"[Jones] tests the limits of human patience (...) With an insipid script, no narrative line, and a cast of unlikable characters, 'Mute' has to get by on looks"	NEG

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