Altered

As a fan of Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky), I have to say, I do like an unabashed sci-fi that revels in it's own silliness. This film however is by no means Iron Sky. Even with an 85 minute run time, it feels like sitting through a three hour episode of the worst Outer Limits episode ever; the only problem being there's no cool twist at the end and it was written by a child who has never seen a movie.

Avoid.

While sci-fi is generally not my go-to type of movies for entertainment, I do sit down to watch the occasional one every now and again. And thus, as I had the opportunity to sit down and watch "Altered", without knowing what I was in for here, I opted to give the movie a fair chance. I had actually never even heard about the movie prior to stumbling upon it by sheer random luck.

The storyline was pretty straightforward, and actually proved entertaining enough for what it was, so writer Timo Vuorensola did manage to pull it off well enough here.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with Tom Felton and Richard Brake. The acting performances in "Altered" were good.

Visually then the movie was actually good. I liked the special effects and the way that writer and director Timo Vuorensola opted to present the somewhat bleak dystopian future that the movie was set in.

Watchable, for sure, but "Altered" is hardly a movie with contents to support more than a single viewing.

My rating of writer and director Timo Vuorensola's 2025 movie "Altered" lands on a five out of ten stars.

First: the intro info dump. It was like they did a single read and yelled GOOD ENOUGH! Its really bad.

The short and simple: The world was nuked. Humanity rebuilt. Some people got mild powers and now live the high life while those who dont live in super poverty.

I feel like they got all of the actors (and I do mean ALL) from a local community theater audition. Not the local community theater performers, but people auditioning for it.

The lines are stiff, clumsy, and poorly acted out. The writing is pretty bad. The characters actions are overly performative to the point it seems like this is a movie aimed at kids.

The accents of the actors are ALL over the place, and it becomes very distracting as they attempt to sound American but keep falling into their fairly heavy accents. They seem to have gotten many English as a second language actors who are doing their best, but unfortunately their best is embarrassing.

The world itself is kind of neat. Its got that "what we think the future will look like from the 80's" vibe. Everything in the high-tech cities are silver metal and blue glass. A lot of the actual world building is pretty bad, but it looks cool.

The "special" district is, of course, rundown and crappy looking. (And if you're a C tier movie, dont mention THX 1138. Seriously.)

The story is bland and boring. Its not really anything that hasnt been explored before, but worse. Its basically xmen vs normal humanity, if the xmen were lame. They're basically just barely better than 'normal humans'.

You can safely skip this one unless you're desperate for a mediocre sci-fi flick that could have been worthwhile with a better script and actors. There was a lot of potential here with the sets and locations and costumes but that was really the only positives. What a waste!

Trailer made it look ok. Was an unwatchable 90mins. Poor mix of characters, accents, and the main actor is still living off his Harry Potter days. The noise the suit makes while moving around and the premise for the "flower" suit made it comical. Actions scenes terrible. I don't usually do reviews but this was BAD.

Whoever did the sound did a real bad job. It sounds dubbed. Sometimes the characters sound like being in a big room when talking in the street.

The action scenes are completely laughable. When the anti genetics slaughter everyone in a restaurant there is not a drop of blood.

The grand piano was obviously made of cardboard. Common.

The editing is is equally terrible.

I just watched it to see if it was really consistenly bad. It is.