“Mute” (**1/2 out of four) was an alluring but abstract Netflix futuristic melodrama set in Berlin 40 years from now in which a mute bartender (Alexander Skarsgard) is determined to find his beloved partner who disappeared on him but this puts him up against ruthless gangsters in the city’s underworld and two mysterious surgeons (Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux) who keep trying to thwart him. Alternately striking, intriguing, murky, and derivative; film is full of style and keeps you watching but never fully takes off. Skarsgard does what he can with a role with almost no dialogue but Rudd dominates every scene he’s in, in one of his most entertaining performances ever and makes this worth watching at least for a little while.