Movie review: Chaos Walking
Directed by: Doug Liman
Runtime: 109 minutes
Rating: PG-13 (for violence and language.)
As theaters begin to open up to full capacity we will be seeing newer releases. This is a welcome change as the last few months, the choices have been slim. This isn’t to say that theaters aren’t still going above and beyond to keep us safe while we are there. I’ve been to various cinemas the last few months and they all do a wonderful job with social distancing and keeping things sanitized. I was eager for this film for several reasons. The premise intrigued me. Your thoughts are “spoken” aloud amongst yourselves. Also the cast was A+ We had Rey from Star Wars (Daisy Ridley) and Spiderman (Tom Holland) teaming up in a sci-fi action adventure. The villains of the film are also superb. Mad Mikkelsen ALWAYS leaves a lasting impression and David Oyelowo was a haunting presence in this tale. This is also based on a novel called The Knife of Never Letting Go by
The pleasures found in engaging with dystopian narratives have to do with a certain distance. While examining contemporary tendencies carried out to their intensely unpleasant conclusions, these fictions are safely removed. They give the morbidly curious various scenarios while also reassuring us that our current society, while seemingly beyond repair, could be far more worse. Author Patrick Ness took the pearl-clutching idea of humanity overloaded with information, added a dash of gender politics, and crafted the
Chaos Walking trilogy, which, after extensive delays and various creative dance partners, has finally been birthed by Ness (with co-writer Christopher Ford) and director Doug Liman (