 What's up nerds? I'm Ben and I'm Scoot and today we're tackling the latest Netflix original film from director Duncan Jones Mute is it better than Cloverfield Paradox? Is it worse than Cloverfield Paradox? Stay tuned to find out So Mute is the story of Leo played by Alexander Skarsgard, or is it Sarsgard? Skarsgard? That sounds right. Anyway, he's a bartender who gets pulled into the criminal underworld of a futuristic Berlin When his girlfriend mysteriously goes missing along the way comes into contact with an array of Colorful characters when you say Scoot very including Paul Rod with a crazy moustache Justin Thoreau and a crazy wig and Dominic Monahan in a crazy kimono Scoot I need to check with you right now if you know the connection between Dominic Monahan and Paul Rod Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Oh, I'll tell you Roger Paul Rod was in Ant-Man, right? Yep, and who else was in Ant-Man a female actress Evangelion Lily from Lost also starring Dominic Monahan. Yes, so that's the connection But let's get to the big question is Mute any good? I think it's pretty good I think it's been getting a bit of a bum rap online and I I mean it's way better than Cloverfield Paradox all bright So this is a as far as I'm concerned. It's a win for Netflix I don't think it's the strongest film we've ever seen or the best thing I've seen this year by any chance But I think it's pretty pretty enjoyable and it's pretty pretty full-on. Yeah I think it's it's getting fashionable now to just shit on Netflix originals because you know and some conspiracy theorists out They would say that you know these are cinema chains and studios paying off film critics to you know rag on these films But yeah, the fact of the matter is this this movie is neither great nor terrible It's sort of so it's just somewhere in the middle. Yeah, correct It's and we'll talk about this a bit further But I think it's it really seems like I want to be Blade Runner a lot of the time And I think it's super noticeable because later on that's Blade Runner sequel only came out last year So I've been reading a bit about Mute and this Duncan Jones has been using this script or had this script for a long time And it kind of sucks for him to you know finally get his chance to make this dream movie and then all these other You know futuristic film noirish films come out within the last 12 months Yeah, it's a shame because I know that I saw the original concept art for this right after moon came out and he said You know, this was the film This is the passion project that he kind of want to make they went off and did source code Which is more of a sure thing But yeah, if this had come out back then I do wonder if the reaction would have been a bit more positive You would have been able to judge the film like on its own merits Instead of comparing it to these other cyberpunk films that have come out and altered carbon Which has only came out last month. Yeah, and Joe Kineman looks very similar to Alexander Skarsgaard. Yeah, it's unfortunate I mean, it's it's probably more of a noir. That's probably one of the things you good things You can say is this is more noir than a lot of those cyberpunk kind of movies of late Yeah, like straight up it just happens to be set in the future But yeah and one of those posters is very like straight out of the 1950s for this film and yeah You're right in that it is definitely set in the future, but it's kind of almost a realistic future We see just kind of evolution of current ideas like drones delivering food and whatnot so it doesn't seem that far-fetched and I also found that there was a Dramatic difference between the daytime scenes and the night time scenes because I felt like the nighttime scenes were Very much Blade Runner, but the daytime stuff kind of just felt like modern-day Berlin. Let's talk about performances. Yep I had Sarsgaard go. I thought he's really good for a guy who does not speak in the film I thought he's pretty expressionful like expression for is that a word thought I thought he's full of expression with his face. I thought I actually really liked his character I Not really liking him as an actor normally. I thought he did wonderful my Opinion of him was kind of raised of when I saw our big little lies and obviously he's been picking up a lot of awards for that role and Paul Rudd in one of the weirdest roles you've ever seen him in He's actually kind of the second lead in this, isn't he? I thought he was going to be more of a supporting character Yeah, so did I and I thought he was going to be the funny supporting character Which he is not he is I Kind of think slightly miscast because I could not get my head around the fact that he wasn't being Brian Fantana from Anchorman, but he's big. Yeah, it's a little bit Brian Fantana and a little bit Build a butcher from Gangster, New York. Yeah, and there's very little comedy in it. It's kind of it's kind of his borderline psychopath Yeah, he's kind of scary Justin Thoreau plays his off-sider and I think he's much more kind of borderline good bad And I think he's as an actor He's able to pull that off because he's not known for these huge comedic roles But yeah, I'm not a hundred percent sure about Paul Rudd in this and he's got to go. Oh No soda I Do want to briefly touch on Duncan Jones and where do you think you'll go from here? Like if this is truly a disaster, you know It's a Netflix disaster. It's not a box office disaster. So do you reckon this will hurt him at all after especially after Warcraft? Yeah, I think Warcraft definitely kind of hurt him But it's weird that he went from super underperforming to making his dream project. So who knows with Hollywood I like I could see him doing something a bit more safer like source code next Because the Warcraft sequel is definitely not happening, which is a good thing Yes, I thought you liked Warcraft. That was fine So summing up scoot, do you recommend this film for people to watch? I think if you're really into older carbon, which is really big right now You're probably gonna spend a lot of time comparing it, but it's definitely worth a look in I think it hits all the kind of right marks with film noir. It's got that kind of sci-fi twist has some interesting performances And some not so interesting things But I think it's worth a shot because if you go into the mentality that all these Netflix original suck I think you could potentially be missing out on things. So I think this one's worth checking out Maybe not so much clothing feel the bright. Well, that'll just about do it for us. I'm Ben. I'm scoot and we'll see you with the movies nerds Yeah