Acción Mutante (1993)
Genre: Scifi / Comedy
Duration: 95 minuten
Alternative title: Mutant Action
Country:
Spain / France
Directed by: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo and Frédérique Feder
IMDb score:
6,4 (6.289)
Releasedate: 3 February 1993
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Acción Mutante plot
In the distant future, good-looking people rule - a terrorist group of disabled people (mutants) kidnap the daughter of wealthy businessman Orujo to claim the rights of ugly people. While escaping from the police, the terrorist leader tries to exterminate his crew in order to collect the ransom himself. This plan fails when their spaceship suddenly crashes on Axturiax - a planet without a woman and populated by deranged miners...
Actors and actresses
Ramon Yarritu
Alex Abadie
Patricia Orujo
Juan Abadie
José Óscar 'Manitas' Tellería
César 'Quimicefa' Ravenstein
El ominoso Orujo
El presentador loco
José 'Chepa' Montero
Invitada de lujo
Reviews & comments
sinterklaas
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- 11824 messages
- 3322 votes
Oh, how beautiful and so over the top! 
Especially that stuttering Spanish is the icing on the cake. What a fun language that remains.
And also a somewhat older film by Iglesia that I had the pleasure of seeing; after he had surprised me with The Last Circus and Witching & Bitching. That the man had an incredibly wacky sense of humor was already clear to me, as was his wink at Hollywood spectacles. Here he has delivered a delightful low-budget splatter, and what a splatter it is!
It takes place in a dystopian world where good-looking people call the shots and the disabled are laid off. Typical of the 90s, too; when commerce slowly but surely swallowed up humanity. However, there is also a group of disabled people who absolutely refuse to accept this and commit one terrorist attack after another. Due to their condition, they are deemed unaccountable for serving a prison sentence; so once released, they can simply start over. The extras alone: The leader Yarritu with his half-head; that hulking figure with no IQ... and then especially that Siamese twin, who steal the show... They kidnap a bride and take her to another planet in a cobbled-together spaceship (are you still following?). Then we have to deal with deceit, conspiracies, the sensitive sides, Stockholm Syndrome... the inhabitants of that planet (who, by sheer coincidence, all speak Spanish)...
And yes, take that splatter seriously too. The kills are really gory and sometimes painful, and blood and guts fly everywhere, but meanwhile there is also plenty of room for a few delightfully brutal action scenes where bullets whiz past your ears. And then there's the cynicism that regularly splashes through it as well. Yes, a fantastic movie!
4.5*
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Woland
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- 4828 messages
- 3859 votes
Wacky film by Alex de la Iglesia. The story is great on paper, but the execution isn't always entirely convincing. You certainly won't be bored; an awful lot happens in that hour and a half, and quite a few people die in a bloody manner. Perhaps there is sometimes a bit too much going on; it is quite chaotic at times and jumps from one thing to another. But the biggest downside for me was that at times it became very cartoonish and lame. An uneven but decent debut, which De la Iglesia surpasses by a wide margin with his later films.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10072 messages
- 4711 votes
It disappointed me quite a lot. However, I usually find De La Iglesia to be quite good. I found films like Perdita Durango and Balada Triste unforgettable, but unfortunately, I have few good words for Accion Mutante.
The humor is lame and crude, the acting is below par, and the absurd story makes no sense. I had hoped it would be more about rebelling against society with all kinds of terrorist actions, but no, it is heading down the path of cheap trash.
A disabled group of terrorists kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy industrialist and then heads to the planet Axturiax to collect the ransom. Along the way, the group's leader, Ramon, kills his companions one by one to keep the money for himself....
De la Iglesia is known for films with antisocial characters and a lot of violence; it shouldn't come as a surprise, this debut is clearly a strong start to his next films, but it is also loud and uninteresting in terms of content, all elements that put me off.
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