Director Duncan Jones returns to his science-fiction roots with a flash Netflix original, but Mute is far from the worthy successor to previous breakout hits Moon and Source Code.
The film follows Alexander Skarsgard as Leo, a mute bartender who is unable to speak after an accident in his youth resulted in his throat getting sliced by a speedboat propeller (obviously). Leo however is in love with blue-haired cocktail waitress Naadirah (Seynab Saleh), who mysteriously disappears after a few fleeting teases of a certain secret in her life.
This leads Leo on a mission to track her down through a dystopian depiction of… Read the full story