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Competently made - looks fine, the performances are mostly solid (though Taylor-Joy struggles a little, whether it's the accent or the broad strokes of the character I'm not sure) - but a mess of ideas with a wonky structure and misjudged effects. The big issues:
1) The twists are incredibly obvious and are revealed an hour too late, which keeps the film in its first act for most of the runtime
2) The 'new mutants in a school with their fears come to life' set-up is ill-defined and uninteresting, especially when a ROTPOTA-style 'new mutants escape from an evil lab/prison/school' was right there.
3) Horror doesn't work when your beasties are unconvincing CGI, and your heroes have incredible powers that can tear through them (sometimes anyway).
Rating: Bad.
(Watched Aug 31, 2020)
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