Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star in a scene from the movie Chaos Walking. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Murray Close, Lionsgate)
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NEW YORK (CNS) If you could read my mind, love/What a tale my thoughts could tell. So mused Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in a hit song from a half-century ago.
The downside of such a situation bedevils the hero of the dull dystopian science fiction drama Chaos Walking (Lionsgate). He inhabits a world where men s thoughts though not women s take audible and sometimes visible form, and thus can only be concealed with great difficulty. While that proves troubling for him and those around him, the effect on the film s audience is nothing short of torturous.
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Chaos Walking : Wanna Hear What Tom Holland s Thinking? Think Again Chaos Walking : Wanna Hear What Tom Holland s Thinking? Think Again
An attempt to start a film franchise out of Patrick Ness s YA sci-fi books - about a planet where everyone hears your thoughts - falls flat on its face its first time out
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Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness’s young-adult trilogy about a planet where one’s private hopes and fears become public audiovisual transmissions, cribs the sentiment from that Dylan couplet though, to be fair, it does not chop off a single person’s head. Characters are shot, beaten, tortured, drowned, chased, burned, pushed into an abyss, scratched, and shamed, but no gets the falling blade. What happens to the cast of Doug Liman’s movie version, however, is far worse than any of that. They end up finding themselves stuck in an overcooked 22-pound cinematic turkey, a genuine schlockbuster, a cosmic flop. The