hmm, don´t like the critic.
1.
is quite possibly the worst movie ever made,
the movie is faaaaaar from beeing the worst. really, i saw a lot of "bad-movies" and MC is not one.
2.
opportunity to delve into .. strange high-tech warfare, ... treated to a war that looks just like World War I trench warfare
by using the word "Chronic" in his name, that perhaps this film...
he does not know MC-RPG/TT. the WWI style is from the game. he expects high tech war, and thats simply not what they _wanted_ to show, since its lost-tech and not sci-fi.
3.
backdrop to a series of boring and pointless conversations between soldiers
yes, the _story_ is quite flat, but the same is true for other war-movies, including gems like e.g. apocalypse now and others..
-> for what it is, i enjoyed it. you see trences (unforunately not imperial)
-> you see brotherhood and some faith-stuff
-> cool mutants and heroes
-> cool cities/suroundings.
=> all in all not a very good movie, but a good adaptation of other media, much better than many many other tries, be it superheroes (hulk, superman) or most books-based filmes (in the category "pulp")