What is wrong with Mute? I actually really liked how they captured the feeling that goes with living with the kind of liberal arts studiers (it's a bit of a generalisation, but I think it holds) that make a group of people like that. They pretty much nailed the ambiance and the personal interactions, even if they were occasionally a bit overblown. That is something movies do.
Oh, many things. Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad directing, bad editing, undeveloped characters, inconsistent characterization, tonally inconsistent, logically nonsensical. It wanted to be film noir, or some sort of bizarre satire about immigration, but did neither well. The sci-fi aspect of the film was also shoe-horned in at the last minute.[1]
The visual effects were good though.
[1] Per the post-premier interview by Rian Johnson, this was apparently the first script Duncan Jones wrote. It went undeveloped for 15 years because no studio would touch it. After Netflix agreed to produce the film, Duncan updated the film to a sci-fi setting because Netflix wanted a followup to Moon and was also shopping around for sci films. Originally, Mute would have been set in the 1980s or roughly modern day.
