‘Chaos Walking’ Film Review: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley Plod Through Limp Sci-Fi Saga
On a future colony, humans will be able to hear each other’s thoughts but apparently those won’t be very interestingAlonso Duralde | March 3, 2021 @ 9:00 AM Last Updated: March 3, 2021 @ 9:06 AM
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Director Doug Liman spun an exceedingly high-concept science-fiction premise into narrative gold with “Edge of Tomorrow,” but in “Chaos Walking,” the concept is all there is.
There’s no shortage of imaginative sci-fi details or of talented actors on-hand, but the film boils down to characters we barely get to know chasing each other and yelling. That it hardly matters who’s being chased or what, exactly, is being yelled mostly “Stop her!” and “AAAUUUGGGHHH!” is just part of the trouble here.
March 3, 2021
Lionsgate India Announced Its First Theatrical Release Of 2021, “Chaos Walking” Starring Tom Holland & Daisy Ridley(Photo Credit – Lionsgate/Youtube)
Lionsgate, a global content leader today announced release of its first movie of the year 2021, ‘Chaos Walking’ led by Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in theatres in India. Directed by Doug Liman, the film is based on a sci-fi trilogy novel Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness adaption of its first book The Knife of Never Letting Go published in 2008.
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The story is about a dystopian world where there are no women, and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. Starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen and Nick Jonas, Chaos Walking is slated to go on floor on 4th March 2021 with Cinepolis India & Pen Marudhar.
Sound and fury signifying nothing interesting.
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Daisy Ridley plays a colonist from Earth who crash-lands on a strange planet among a hostile all-male community, with Tom Holland as the good guy shepherding her to safety in Doug Liman s dystopian sci-fi movie.
Toxic masculinity is an interplanetary export in Doug Liman s
Chaos Walking, in which the male population of human settlers experience a reaction to the environment of the New World that renders their every thought both audible and visible. The multihued blur of movement created around them by that unfiltered Noise at first had me wondering about a faulty link, or a possible need for picture adjustment on my TV. Not that the visual effects aren t slick, like everything else in this dour sci-fi saga. The issue is more that the information overload afflicting the men onscreen also infects the muddy storytelling from the start, failing to hook you into the characters or their plight.
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Every month, TV-tracking app TV Time provides Insider with the most anticipated movies based on its US users.
March includes HBO Max s Justice League cut and Disney s Raya and the Last Dragon.
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the theatrical industry and changed how movie studios approach releasing movies.
That s clear when looking at some of the most anticipated movies coming in March. The blockbuster Godzilla vs. Kong will premiere in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously in the US, as will all of Warner Bros. movies this year.
Similarly, Disney will debut its animated film Raya and the Last Dragon this month on Disney Plus for an additional fee to subscribers, called Premiere Access. The company used the same strategy with Mulan last year.
The past year has reshaped much of our everyday lives. It s turned Zoom into a household utility, it s taught us you can never really wash your hands enough, and it introduced Comedy Central s Stir Crazy to the masses a virtual series on the network s digital channels hosted by Josh Horowitz. [.]