In this standard sci-fi potboiler, Earth has rebuilt itself after nuclear strikes into a shiny new genetically-enhanced Apple-store future, with a struggling and rebellious underclass ('Specials') trying to get by in a grimy low-tech-augmented existence, focussing on a wheelchair-bound hustler Leon (Tom Felton) and his sassy 12-year-old sassy sidekick ward Chloe (Elizaveta Bugulova) and other rebels set to target an imminent unification concert. There is a reasonable if limited attempt at world-building to differentiate between the simplistic social divide, but it is hampered by lacklustre performances across the board and the story limps along listlessly. Low-budget international co-productions with eclectic casts rarely work well, and Altered is no exception that leaves little impression.
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