deshan-78580 Before I start reviewing, let me let you guys know that this review might contain a few spoiler alerts, if you can't handle spoilers, then don't read this review. Mutant Species is a 1995 Sci-fi thriller directed by David Prior. This film starts off with a group of soldiers sent out to find the mutant container, they found it, but the mission immediately went horribly wrong. This one particular soldier touched the container and the moving blood has gotten into its skin, causing him to kill nearly the entire group of soldiers, but two of them however survived. Later the two surviving soldiers are trying to get help, then much later, the affected soldier has transformed into a mutant creature. Towards the end of the film, the mutant creature is causing chaos around the forest, and the surviving soldier has managed to kill it, that's the entire film for you. Pros: - Decent kills/deaths - Okay at best creature effects (sure that mutant creature looks cheap & cheesy, but I call it acceptable at best though) Cons: - Poor acting - Bad plot - Horrible writing - Clichéd concept - Lousy ending (the mutant creature blew himself up) In the end of the day, Mutant Species is a bland & boring movie at best, recommend staying far away from it unless you got nothing better to do or you just love making fun of horrible movies. 3/10, the end.Rated R for strong violence & infrequent strong language

Deliberate_Stranger 'Mutant Species' (more known in my country under the title 'Bio Force I') is certainly one of David Prior better movies. The script is very well written and includes one jaw dropping scene along with good, not so happy ending. Very strong side of 'Mutant Species' are actors - we have here Ted Prior who is always great and convincing and some big names including Powers Boothe ('Southern Comfort'), Leo Rossi ('Maniac Cop 2', 'Halloween 2'), Denise Crosby and even Wilford Brimley('The Thing'). What's very important, all people from the cast are good in their roles and Powers Boothe is just perfect as an government asshole who is trying to cover up his mistakes. 'Mutant Species' offers some gore (decapitation, hand ripped of etc.) but most important thing about the picture is rubber monster costume which looks just great and I can assure - you haven't seen something like that before. If you are looking for monster movie in the vein of 'Predator' and you like low budget, you won't be disappointed with 'Mutant Species'. 7 out of 10.

Vomitron_G Does anybody know that this movie stars Wilford Brimley (Dr. Blair from John Carpenter's THE THING)? I for one had no idea and it was fun seeing him again on my TV-screen. But don't watch this movie only because he's in it. He has limited screen time and absolutely nothing to do but sit around and do some talking, playing a veteran general. I'm gonna use one of his memorable quotes (he does have some good lines in this movie) to describe the plot: "A biological weapon, so nasty we had to send it to the moon, crashes out here in the forest and we don't have any idea what's going on."If I add the term 'B-horror/sci-fi drivel' than you must know what you're in for. The bio-weapon itself is some kind of red liquid virus containing a mixture of the most aggressive human/animal-dna available. So when the shuttle with the canister containing the virus crashes in the woods, a team of soldiers is send in to retrieve it.I really chuckled myself through this movie. The dialogues are full of clichés and there's even a one-liner which is shamelessly stolen from John Carpenter's THEY LIVE including the words "kick ass" and "bubblegum" (need I say more?). Leo Rossi over-acts it beautifully, at one point (when he discovers his enhanced hearing-abilities) even pulling dramatical funny faces of which Bruce Campbell would be jealous. He also warns his team up to three times to NOT touch the canister when they find it. And when they do find it, what does he do? He immediately picks the darn thing up with his bare hands (thus getting himself infected). So he starts mutating (I love the pulsating skin-effects) into this man in a laughable monster-suit with an over-sized head featuring some crappy animatronics. The rest of the movie has the sole survivor of the team and the mutant chasing each other in the woods. Along the way a special forces team is sent in but immediately gets ripped to shreds without being able to do anything (in case you didn't know, this always happens to highly trained special forces in this type of movies).There are also some intercut scenes featuring Powers Boothe (talking with Brimley). Now good ol' Boothieboy seems to realize that he's starring in a crappy movie and you can tell that he doesn't mind doing so, having fun in delivering his mean pun-filled lines.The ending is completely ridiculous. Never have I seen a monster get killed this way in a movie. Trotter (the one survivor) simply reasons it to death. He gives this speech about them being soldiers once who are not supposed to kill innocent human beings. The monster seems to realize that while making a weeping sound (sounding like a dog being sad). They friggin' salute each other!!! And the monster blows itself up. I gotta hand it to the script-writers, even I couldn't have come up with that one.At first I was convinced that the film-makers intended it to be a tongue-in-cheek B-movie, but there's one detail that tells us otherwise: the musical score by William T. Stromberg. It's too ambitious. It is fairly good but hearing it in this kind of movie makes you roll your eyes and sigh.Now, I must admit I've seen this movie twice (oops!) and I did have some fun with it, but I think the wisest thing to do is put this movie in a canister and send it to the moon.

TC-4 What bothers me about this low budget trash is that when I go to the local video store it is filled with these great appearing (from the cover) videos. Most of these are movies that no one has ever heard of. Most of them will have a cameo role of some reasonably big star and have him or her the star of the movie. They all look like a "TV movie" with a few swear words thrown in the get an R rating to make you think that this is a "real" movie. Usually about 10 minutes into the movie I realize that I got taken again. My advise is that if you never heard of it, don't rent it or first check here to get some reviews.