Gorgeous visual effects

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2006)

When I was a kid fairy tales had fairies, witches, wizards, gnomes, dwarfs, magic wands and fantastic castles or palaces. Now they have mutants, monsters, heroes, politicians, presidents, superpowers, explosions and violence galore. Well but this movie curiously combines odd people dressed in normal clothes (with a few exceptions) circulating in normal streets with normal buildings inside and outside normally decorated and normal vehicles passing around. Despite that the movie has got some of the greatest visual effects ever seen on the screen. We are here in the presence of a society composed of humans and mutants endowed with superpowers both physical and mental. Apparently those mutants are assimilated in American society (the movie takes place only in USA and we don't know what happens in other countries) but when a medicine is discovered that can "cure" them that is deprive them of their superpowers and sometimes peculiar appearances and make them "normal" human beings, then, while some of them resort to democratic peaceful street demonstrations, some others form a brotherhood that opts to resist violently starting a war against established powers and authorities to seize and destroy the source of that medicine. In the fight that ensues a handful of "good" mutants side with the established powers against their fellow creatures. The final battle in my opinion is the weakest part of the movie even in terms of visual effects not rising above of lots of other similar scenes already seen in alike movies. There are also a few logical flaws like for instance the fact of one of the most powerful mutants going on a wheelchair instead of putting himself to walk normally being true that he could do much more difficult supernatural things. Love is also present mainly in the relationship between one of the "good" mutants and a mutant young girl endowed with the most powerful superpowers. A goody movie after all.