Acción mutante
Tags: absurd, psychedelic, comedy, satire, violence

Plot synopsis:
A future post-apocalyptic world is ruled by the good-looking people. A terrorist group of disabled people, who see themselves as mutants, take arms against their oppressors. They plan to rid the world of "beautiful people" and superficiality. They are very inept at what they do and mistrust one another. They assassinate body builders, massacre an aerobics class on live TV and blow up a sperm bank as part of their violent campaign.
Led by their chief Ramón Yarritu (Antonio Resines), they plan their final hit before retirement; the kidnap of Patricia Orujo (Frédérique Feder), the daughter and only heiress of billionaire businessman Lord Orujo (Fernando Guillén), the plan involves kidnapping the girl in the middle of her wedding but the scene becomes a massacre when the girl cuts the cake with a large sharp knife puncturing the chest of one of the terrorists that was hidden inside of it, badly hurt he opens the cake top and open fire on the alarmed and unsuspecting attendees, 2 members of the terrorist group are killed in the middle of the fray but the rest manage to flee with Patricia as their hostage. They staple Patricia's lips together with a special electronic device and escape from the police in their spaceship whose disguised as a gigantic fish merchant ship.
Ramón, planning to keep the ransom money for himself, hides from the group that the amount set for the exchange is 100 million and declares its only 10 million, the gang accidentally watches a news flash report where the correct amount to be delivered by the girl's family is revealed, the gang gets upset and summons Ramón to explain the misinformation but he turns the gang members against each other by convincing them there is a traitor on board the ship and that is part of the crew.
His scheme and plot leads to the deaths of all the crewmen/henchmen of the gang seemingly accidentally each time a member was murdered by Ramón himself, while killing the last one of the terrorists - Juan (Juan Viadas), who has a siamese twin .. Álex (Álex Angulo), he is discovered and a fierce fight starts culminating in the destruction of the guidance system of the ship. They crash on a planet called Axturiax, a brutal and forgotten mining planet inhabited only by male crazed, sex-starved miners because all women had died. Ramón and Patricia, who has developed Stockholm Syndrome, are captured by miners but manage to escape, but not before they attempt to gang-rape her, Álex survives the crash too and after he friendlies with a blind experienced miner, he decides to pursue Ramón to avenge his death brother and to rescue Patricia, he must drag the attached dead body of his brother Juan around with him for the rest of the film, A planned ransom drop trick by Orujo turns into mayhem, when a portable nuclear device is activated by lord Orujo to wipe clean the whole area, the event is compounded by live TV coverage for the ransom negotiations when Álex arrives and kills Lord Orujo with a headshot, initiating a dogfight inside the bar that goes to its climax when the police forces join the show and Ramón decides to sacrifice himself to allow Patricia escape and survive the bar fight with the police forces outside ... greeting Patricia with a French kiss and Álex by telling him he is still useless, he uses Lord Orujo mini nuke to evaporate the police army outside entrance while the bar trembles and crumbles due to the mini nuke shockwave.
When the nuclear blast is over Álex finally gets rid of his siamese twin attached body and finds Patricia hidden below a metal cage that ironically saved her, they hold each other in order to ready a machine gun and get outside the destroyed bar.

Review: Hysterically funny, over-the-top mutant action movie..
Like the title says, this movie is an action flick about, well, mutants.
Mutants who are terrorists trying to blow up the "beautiful people" of the world.
Rarely have I seen a more entertaining, goofy, hilarious, science fiction/thriller, and complete romp of a film."Accion Mutante" is certainly over-the-top, and it plays fast and loose with plot development, but that's part of its charm.
But if you have an outrageous, wacky sense of humour, and you enjoy gonzo SF movies with lots of ridiculous gore and totally unrealistic violence, that leave no holds barred, then take a look at "Accion Mutante"--you'll probably love it.For aficionados of films with the sensibility of "Freaked", "Eating Raoul", "Big Trouble in Little China", the pacing of "Aliens", and a similar amount of violence to "Fight Club".
Do not be fooled into thinking that Accion Mutante is merely a darkly humorous schlock space-horror-action movie.
It aggressively and successfully attacks 'decent' society, the media and the action movie genre itself in equal measures and still manages to be genuinely funny, shocking and surprising.
Paul Verhoeven has been trying to make a film like this for years, but in my opinion has never got close.Mutante is pure Science Fiction (and I mean SF *not* Sci-Fi) - deadly anti-bourgeois social commentary wrapped in a delicious coating of blood, sugar and intergalactic terrorism.Nice one!.
Anyway, at the final third part, when the spaceship reaches the planet, the film gets to its high point!
I had a great time watching this film, it's funny (in a twisted way), there's blood and sickness.
It reminded me of BRAINDEAD & BAD TASTE of Peter Jackson, as well as BODY MELT of Philip Brophy and maybe a bit Mad Max (by the way ALL Australian films).
Accion Mutante are a group of disabled terrorists who think of themselves as mutants and who see their mission as being to rid the world of pretty people and superficiality.
Unfortunately, they are quite fabulously inept at what they do, and they are totally mistrusting of each other (with good cause, it turns out!)This film is a comic masterpiece: the direction is a cinematic treat and the more times you watch it, the better it gets.To give you an idea of just how impressed I was, I rented the film once and then went back to the rental shop and bought that copy from them.If you enjoy off-beat, quirky movies that defy genre then you're going to love this; if you don't enjoy such eccentric celluloid expeditions then you may surprise yourself by enjoying this anyway.
Alex De La Iglesia's first Sci-Fi movie plenty of horror , comedy , gore , amusement and embarrassing situations.
Devilishly funny Sci-Fi-terror-black comedy about some mutants become involved into incredible and frightening adventures .
They're a band formed by hunchbacks , cripples , a two-headed man , mentally handicapped people and other mutants , all of them are likeness to ¨Francisco Ibañez's comic books roles¨.
This is a full-on surreal Science Fiction movie that blends thrills , a lot of fun , suspense , tension as well as an intriguing script full of underlying lack seriousness .
This Spanish SciFi/Fantasy/comedy is Alex De la Iglesia's first foray into absolute and total lunacy , being titled ¨Mutant action¨ or ¨Acción Mutante¨ .
The flick centers on a band of attackers , a terrorist group of mutants led by Ramon Yarritu (Resines) abduct at a wedding party the daughter of a wealthy owner , Patricia Orujo (Frédérique Feder), to claim for the rights of the ugly people .
Alex De la Iglesia's Sci-Fi , horror comedy blends creepy elements with humor , tongue-in-cheek and thrills ; so, the tone of the film is light-hearted .
Packed with scenes of fantastic nature , robust comedy , this story is exciting as well as frightening , as we follow the strange situations of some peculiar kidnappers whose destination is dictated by terrible events .
The narration is so filled with quirk characters , crazy violence mixed with eerie elements and an underlying sense of surprise , and it is so excessive and plenty of fantastic elements , one can't help but keep watching , much as it is over the top in many an occasion .
De La Iglesia reigns in his style this time around and gives an utterly watchable takedown of Science Fiction/comedy that certainly delivers a few madly inspired moments .
Once again De la Iglesia exemplifies why he's one of the most amusing Spanish filmmakers currently churning out foreign cinema , adopting frenetic storytelling much like Quentin Tarantino , Brian Singer , or Matthew Vaughn might dream up .
Enjoyable main cast and agreeable support actors deliver one of the most engaging , hysterical, action packed and wonderfully shot Sci-Fi movie in years .
Ensemble cast boasts some of Spain's biggest film and TV stars , such as Antonio Resines/Ramón whose character mingles aspects from Terminator (James Cameron , 1984) and Pinhead (Hellraiser) , and the two-headed role by recently deceased Alex Angulo is lookalike monster ¨Basket Case¨(1982 , Frank Henenlotter) .
Further cast members are first class Spanish star system such as Karra Elejalde , Jaime Blanch ,Ramón Barea , Bibiana Fernández , Rossi De Palma , and Santiago Segura ; most of them Alex De Iglesia's ordinaries .It has a nice production design by Arri and Biaffra , plenty of creativity .
De La Iglesia , is well known as the Spanish king of black comedy .
And , of course , ¨Day of the beast¨ and ¨La Comunidad¨ obtained the unanimous praise of both the critics and the public and result to be a lot of fun¨, especially for those who enjoy surrealist humor , they won several Goya prizes and and resulted to be a turning point in his meteoric career ; from then on he became his own producer, beginning with '800 bullets' (2002) through the Pánico Films company .
In addition , he produced a TV Series : ¨Pluton BRB Nero¨ (2009) with similar characters and atmospheres to Mutant action .
Winner of several Goyas (Spanish Oscars), however his movies have not yet reached box office in USA, but he has strong followers , as his films have a kind of comic edge to them .
¨Acción Mutante¨ captures the essence of the best Alex De La Iglesia, a filmmaker who, at this point in his own story, is respected and admired worldwide and has the most committed fans in the film universe .
Being a big winner with various statues Goyas was this Alex De la Iglesia's comedy which dominated the technical categories .
This is without a doubt a thrilling and enjoyable movie to be enjoyed for Sci-Fi/comedy aficionados and Alex De Iglesia fans ..
I'm a real admirer of Alex de la Iglesia's superb supernatural comedy thriller 'The Day Of The Beast', so I was really looking forward to watching 'Accion Mutante', his previous movie.
It started off superbly as a exciting, violent and witty black comedy about a gang of (mostly deformed) mutant terrorists intent on destroying "the beautiful people" and their mediocre, hypocritical society.
All was going great, the balance between satire, action and silliness was handled imaginatively, but half way through the movie changes direction, and becomes increasingly less interesting.
The planet where Mutant Action land to make their exchange is populated by a family of grotesques similar to one's in Philip Brophy's equally bizarre 'Body Melt', or like some of the stranger characters seen in the comics of Garth Ennis.
Unfortunately for me the movie loses focus at this point, all the earlier potential for surreal social criticism is abandoned, and it becomes a standard b-grade sci fi action flick with only a few good bits.
It's a shame to me that the movie didn't continue in the approach of its first half, because I think if it did it would be a classic piece of science fiction.
Accion Mutante is the debut feature from cult director Álex de la Iglesia.
It's set in the future, where a terrorist group called Accion Mutante take violent action against rich hipsters and the superficially beautiful; their latest scheme sees them kidnap a society girl resulting in them being pursued to another planet by her mogul father who is bent on serious revenge.This one has a pretty modest budget so it has to be cut some slack.
In particular an early high society party scene was nicely done; it was colourful and garish in a way that showed the definite influence of Pedro Almodovar who actually was a producer here.
This scene along with the earlier more directly satirical ones that showed news reports on the terrorists activities were the most successful and focused parts of the film.
Ultimately, Accion Mutante is one of those movies which probably isn't as good as you think it's going to be given the potential of the central idea.
This lady, Patricia, Ramon kidnapped her on Earth : she's an important businessman's rich daughter, and he has to exchange her an for a large ransom.Classic situation, till a Stockolm Syndrome out of the ordinary.
Patricia tenderly addresses him a stupid «I love you», kinda «The Young and the Restless», and Ramon answers in the end by starting up a general gunfight as worthy as John Woo's best ones !
Imposing !In this Alex de la Iglesia's first feature film, the football-suited cops are as twisted as the reporters : some thrash and kill over the slightest thing and others show the pigs' «feats» on T.V. NewsThe original soundtrack is excellent, composed by Def Con Dos, a cool band which is almost unknown out of Spain, alas.Antonio Resines , as the leader of the terrorists, plays his part horribly well, as well as Alex Angulo, the siamese dragging his stuffed brother.
In a distinctly softer kind, you can find an Antonio as good in « Como ser mujer y no morir en el intento », and Alex Angulo in Iglesia's second feature film, « El dia de la bestia ».
I've never seen such a black humour than in this terrific movie among terrific ones : « Accion Mutante !
»I'll give 10/10 for that « sci-fi/black comedy » super film !.
Having seen "El día de la Bestia" (which blew me away, great movie), in Spain during Spanish lessons, I turned my attention to other movies made by Alex de la Iglesia and the only DVD I could find back in the Netherlands was this one (or "Mutant Action", as it was called).
I like odd, strange, out-of-the-ordinary movies.
Although it's not De la Iglesia's best movie, it's still pretty good.
I've never encountered any of these actors before, but they are all terrific and I'd watch almost anything they've subsequently made.You may have to hunt for a crisp English subtitled print; beware the Substance 2002 DVD release that claims to be remastered, but is quite muddy, and I highly doubt it's a "remaster" as I've seen better non-subbed prints.PS - the wedding cake scene is worth the price of admission alone..
The problem with Acción Mutante, if any, is that it is packed with a lot of local jokes that make little or no sense outside of Spain and some Spanish speaking countries.
As always, beneath the violence, humour and genre-spoofery, de la Iglesia engages in a serious subtext of social criticism, in this case of beauty-led bourgeois culture.Unfortunately, this serious side is abandoned in the second half, as is anything resembling a decent plot.
Alex Angulo is as brilliant as always, and the film provides an interesting insight into the origins of its director's wonderful subsequent work..
All the way to the end it is made up from moments of madness, not unlike "the thief, the cook, and the lover", it reigns way up there in the realms of monty python, (to some) and as bad as the attack of the killer tomatoes, it could have easily been a cult movie given the air time.
I especially enjoyed the closing scene ( no not because the movie was over), but because all the corpses sat up and sang the bad bad ending song...............a slap to the conventional, nah, just good light hearted fun..
Anyway: if you dig this one, try also "Torrente" and "Airbag" - I hated those as much as I hated "Accion Mutante", but plenty of my Spanish mates were recommending all of those three films.
The movie looks like it is done by a film school drop out on 2nd class ganja.
if you like this kind of films - I certainly don't....
An entertaining, satirical, ultra-violent black comedy movie.
The film starts off as a satirical, blackly humorous, look at society, where a group of disabled terrorists (Accion Mutante), reunited with their newly released leader Ramon, kidnap a beautiful wealthy socialite Patricia at a bloody raid on her wedding reception.
The kidnapping is the culmination of a campaign of anti-beautiful people terrorism, and leaves half of the terrorists dead after a violent battle at the reception.After this stage of the film, the film takes a turn to a SCI-FI crime black comedy, where Ramon takes Patricia to a rendezvous on a distant planet in a pure money-grabbing ransom attempt (none of the anti-beauty ideals of Mutante Accion remain).
On board the ship, Ramon starts to spread dissent among the remaining gang members, resulting in the death of all of them bar one, who happens to be half of a siamese twin (leading to some pretty disturbing scenes later in the film).
There ends up being a race to the ransom rendezvous between the half siamese and Ramon, with Ramon and Patricia meeting up with a family reminiscent of the inbreeds in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the siamese being strung up with his dead brother, eventually causing their separation.
The showdown at the end between Ramon, Patricia's father, and the twin, leaves nearly everyone dead.If this doesn't interest you in this gem of a film, let me add that it was not really cheesily done.
Strange, surrealistic mixture inspired by movies like "Time Bandits", "Mad Max", or "Brazil".
Some disabled people form a terrorist group to attack the rich and beautiful.
The plot is a bit crappy; the movie focusses on obscure characters like Alex, the siamese twin.
The beginning is a bit lame; I like the movie more in the second part, when they land on that strange planet.Generally, "El dia de la bestia" is the better one of Iglesias two well-known movies.
A cosmo bar helped make the original Star Wars the monster great film.
If you're interested in the theme, Accion Mutante is a film to see..
This bizarre sci-fi / action / horror / comedy hybrid is set in a post-apocalyptic world where Accion Mutante (or Mutant Action) a group of terrorist mutants are trying to realize their goal of eradicating all the beautiful people in the universe by going around assassinating body builders, blowing up sperm banks, and massacring a TV aerobics class live on air.
When their leader Ramon is released from prison they set up a plan to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy business man at her wedding, their plans go horribly wrong (the hunchback gets stabbed while hiding inside the wedding cake) and the wedding ends in a massacre, BUT they still eventually secure the girl, who's lips they staple shut, bundle her into their space ship and take her off to the planet where they'll be meeting her father with the ransom money.
While in transit to the planet however, their scheming leader manages to off the other members of the gang by turning them on each other - except the Siamese twins, of which he only kills one, who is forced to drag his dead brothers body around with him for the rest of the film - so he can keep all the cash for himself.
When the leader Ramon and his hostage (who has now developed Stockholm syndrome) land on the planet they meet the Crazy Miners who are all insane from constantly inhaling some kinda gas, who take them in and feed them but then turn on them an try to gang rape Patricia, the kidnapee because there are no women on this particular planet and they're fiendin' for some pussy.
except for Patricia the kidnapped bride and the single Siamese twin who was in love with her the whole time and they live happily ever after.
The End.I really dug this early film from Álex de la Iglesia (of The Day of the Beast fame).
Its a fun little black comedy with themes of social satire, quite a bit of the old ultra-violence, trashy sci-fi trappings and some cripples to keep you amused.
Mutants....more like Handicaps..
After seeing El Dia De La Bestia I was very much hyped up about Accion Mutante.
But unfortunately Accion Mutante didn't deliver for me in the slightest.Accion Mutante starts off like it may be a crazy team based action flick with characters all over the place.
But instead they get rid of that idea for a simple kidnap and revenge type film.
I was enjoying all the different types of "mutants", even though they're really just handicapped people, which was also disappointing.
You do end up meeting more and more characters as the film goes on, but none are very entertaining.
Though I do have to admit the sets were nice, the ship interior reminded me of another film called City of Lost Children.
The only thing about Accion Mutante I liked was the violence.
I'd agree if the original Mutante team stayed together, since Freaked is based around a large cast, but nope, they got rid of that very early on.
Accion Mutante definitely has a look and feel to it that a lot of people will enjoy, but it'll never reach the cult status that El Dia De La Bestia will reach.