But the whole gang thing, weird sister-brother relationship, plus the two May-December romances are offputting. But the Viveca Lindfors character, her art in the face of Cold War despair, and the children themselves were quite wonderful.
So what if you could breed a bunch of mutant kids who would survive the inevitable nuclear World War III that's coming? Catch is, no one can get near them while you remotely teach them (zoom classes before there was zoom!) And they aren't happy about being isolated.
Inevitably someone finds out about them and wants to rescue them. Unfortunately the people who do that are not at all heroic. They're terrible people, a rapey middle aged guy and the girl gang member who picks up random men on the street to be robbed. Lovely pair. 8/
The film is unbalanced with too much about the gang nonsense, and Oliver Reed's hammy acting is terrible from the get-go but grows to be even worse as the film progresses. More about artist Viveca and her ancient military BF, and the kids he controls would have made it a better film. A random couple on a boat finding the kids would have been better than people I'd already grown to hate.
But then the film would have had a running time of 43 minutes, so someone would have had to write several more scenes.
So what if you could breed a bunch of mutant kids who would survive the inevitable nuclear World War III that's coming? Catch is, no one can get near them while you remotely teach them (zoom classes before there was zoom!) And they aren't happy about being isolated.
Inevitably someone finds out about them and wants to rescue them. Unfortunately the people who do that are not at all heroic. They're terrible people, a rapey middle aged guy and the girl gang member who picks up random men on the street to be robbed. Lovely pair. 8/
The film is unbalanced with too much about the gang nonsense, and Oliver Reed's hammy acting is terrible from the get-go but grows to be even worse as the film progresses. More about artist Viveca and her ancient military BF, and the kids he controls would have made it a better film. A random couple on a boat finding the kids would have been better than people I'd already grown to hate.
But then the film would have had a running time of 43 minutes, so someone would have had to write several more scenes.