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DVD Review: “Mind Blown” Blows

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Brought together by a high-tech military organization, a group of telekinetics agree to use their powers for the good of humanity. But when they discover they’ve been tricked into destroying cities and killing innocent civilians, one team member takes matters into her own hands.

There was a time not too long ago, back in the ’80s and ’90s, when it was a known fact that any movie that went straight to home video was no good. In the years since, that consensus changed as more and more films went directly to home entertainment and deliberately bypassed theaters, not because they were bad, but because for the producers and filmmakers involved, it was cheaper than trying to get their feature into theaters and as cinema prices began to skyrocket, more and more people chose to stay at home. I wish I could say that “Mind Blown” falls into the latter category but it does not, it belongs squarely in the former.

A group of telekinetics (think X-Men) are brought into a government program under the pretense that they will be saving lives. As it turns out, their leader, Colonel Tyron Clayton (Steve Hanks), is a few screws short of a hardware store and covertly uses their powers to cause death to thousands of people around the world. Tired of the current government and how the world is run, he wants to eliminate the entire world and repopulate it with his own people. His group of telekinetics can use their abilities to harness the power of mother nature by bringing rain to drought-ridden areas, and heat to colder climates but as they enter the program, he secretly takes advantage of their powers to cause destruction and mayhem around the world. When they realize what is going on, they must team up together to stop him and prevent a global catastrophe.

The movie is absolutely terrible. And terrible as in laughably bad. The only recognizable name here, Luke Goss, makes a few appearances just so he can pick up his paycheck. The acting is cringe-worthy, especially its two leads, Jessica Uberuaga and Michael Marinaccio, who end up being the world’s saviors but their performances are so astoundingly bad they make Chuck Norris look like Daniel Day-Lewis. The special effects and CGI are groan-inducing and could have probably been better produced at the local film school. In one unintentionally hilarious moment, after the decimation of a small American town by an earthquake and tornado, both unknowingly caused by the telekinetics, a news crew is dispatched to the location and as we watch the journalist report the news, she informs viewers to just look at the “major devastation” directly behind her and all we can see is an ambulance and a diner, both in perfect condition. She then proceeds to state that people are being “rushed into the ambulance and taken to the hospital,” yet behind her, we can only see an ambulance along with an EMT and one person sitting on a gurney. Maybe they had planned to insert some CGI of a burning, ravaged town behind them but I’m sure as production wrapped up, everyone wanted to move onto their next project and put this in their rear view mirror. I don’t blame them, I would too.

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James McDonald

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, James is a Movie Critic with 40 years of experience in the film industry as an Award-Winning Filmmaker. He is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association.