Mute | Netflix Original Movie | Barely watchable futuristic thriller.
Netflix has pretty much everything about the future sorted out and ready for us to witness. Mute follows the story of Leo Beiler ( Alexander Skarsgård ) who is a mute bartender who goes in search for his missing girlfriend (Nadiraah- played by Seyneb Saleh ) and Skarsgård is probably the only good thing about the whole movie. The story is set 40 years into the future in Berlin, which is filled with immigrants where all cultures collide. I had read somewhere that the film took the makers 10 odd years to complete and the end product did leave you with a lot of questions and ‘meh’ moments. Paul Rudd , too put in a pretty good shift as one of the two cocky American surgeons who makes quick bucks by sewing up mob henchmen who get injured in ‘the line of duty’. The first few minutes were intriguing and as the story evolved I was left wondering what the end game was. The plot is predictable, dialogues uninteresting and...