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