Mutant Action 1993

In a bleak, future world that has slipped into a rough, post-apocalyptic order, beauty grants power and those who are considered “beautiful” live in relative control while others push back. A terrorist faction comprised of disabled people, who view themselves as mutants, rises to challenge their oppressors. They take up arms to purge the world of what they call superficiality, and their methods are brutal and chaotic: they assassinate body builders, massacre an aerobics class on live television, and even blow up a sperm bank as part of their violent crusade.

Led by Ramón Yarritu, they plan one final strike before retirement: the kidnapping of Patricia Orujo, the daughter and heiress of billionaire industrialist Lord Orujo. The target is to abduct Patricia at her wedding, a sensational and symbolic strike meant to shake the powerful family to its core. The wedding scene becomes a nightmare of chaos when Patricia, cutting the cake with a large knife, punctures the chest of one of the terrorists hiding inside. The would‑be killer bursts from the cake and opens fire, killing two of the attackers and forcing the rest to flee with Patricia as their hostage. The gang escapes in a spaceship that they’ve disguised as a gigantic fish merchant ship, a trick that underscores their desperate, improvised nature.

Behind the kidnapping, Ramón has his own scheme to keep the ransom money for himself. The plan involves a mind-bending deception: the amount for the exchange is publicly revealed as 100 million, but Ramón privately declares it to be only 10 million. The group catches a glimpse of a news flash that reveals the real figure, which inflames tensions and unsettles trust within the crew. Ramón then manipulates the situation, convincing the others that there is a traitor among them. The rift he coerces tears the crew apart, and one by one the gang members die under suspicious, seemingly accidental circumstances—often those deaths happen as Ramón quietly eliminates threats around him. The confrontation reaches a fever pitch when the last of the attackers, Juan Viadas as Juan, who shares a body with his Siamese twin Álex Angulo as Álex, is drawn into a brutal fight. The clash culminates with the ship’s guidance system damaged beyond repair, forcing a crash landing on Axturiax, a harsh mining planet inhabited by male miners whose population has swelled with the disappearance of women.

On this brutal frontier, Ramón Yarritu and Patricia find themselves captured by the miners but manage to escape. Patricia, who has developed Stockholm syndrome during their ordeal, remains under constant threat as the miners threaten to assault her. Álex survives the crash as well and, after befriending an old, blind miner, resolves to pursue Ramón to rescue Patricia and to avenge his brother Juan. The doubled tragedy of the twins is underscored by Álex’s need to drag the body of his dead brother Juan along for the journey, a grim burden he carries as he presses forward.

A new menace emerges when Lord Orujo activates a portable nuclear device, threatening to wipe out the entire area. The moment of high drama unfolds on live television as the ransom negotiations become a spectacle that the world watches. Álex arrives to confront the chaos and shoots Lord Orujo in the head, sparking a brutal bar fight that erupts into a full-blown clash as police forces close in. In a self-sacrificing move, Ramón Yarritu chooses to allow Patricia to escape, even as he fends off the authorities and the attackers outside. He uses the late Orujo’s mini-nuke in a final act to vaporize the police army outside, triggering a seismic shock that makes the bar crumble around them.

When the dust settles, Álex has the heartrending task of finally dealing with the corpse of his Siamese twin brother, freeing himself from that grim tether. He finds Patricia sheltered beneath a metal cage that saved her from the blast, and the two share a moment of relief amid the ruin. They emerge into the smoking rubble, gripping a machine gun and stepping into the uncertain future together, their bond forged in survival and tempered by loss.

This is a story of defiance and desperation, where appearances sharpen power and loyalty is tested under pressure, and where the fragile thread of humanity is pulled taut by violence, sacrifice, and a bid for freedom against a world that worships beauty above all else.