An $125 million studio movie about a human colony on a distant planet of retro-futuristic “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” cosplayers where every man’s internal monologue loudly emanates from his head like overlapping speaker feedback in a synesthesiac cloud of “Noise” so intense that you can see it take shape on screen (and where every woman was killed in a recent war with the indigenous species of humanoid monsters), “Chaos Walking” could’ve and should’ve been the most arrestingly unusual sci-fi blockbuster since “Cloud Atlas.”

That’s certainly what it seemed fated to become in 2012 when Lionsgate hired Charlie Kaufman to adapt the first installment of Patrick Ness’ trilogy and its Film Twitter-like premise into a potential franchise-starter. But the house that “Hunger…

Doug Liman hasn't had a very good 2021, has he? With Locked Down and now Chaos Walking, the man who gave us gems such as Edge of Tomorrow and Bourne Identity is slowly taking a turn. Yet, rather surprising, Chaos Walking isn't the unrealisable film it could have been. It’s certainly not great, but I rather liked some of it. 

Based on the young adult science fiction series by Patrick Ness, and starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen and Nick Jonas, the story follows a dystopian world where there are no women, and all men can hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called "Noise." When a woman, Viola (Ridley), crash lands on the…

warning signs your movie kinda sucks:
- it starts with a text quote from one of the movie's characters
- it's the distant future but people ride on horses
- it's the distant future but people are still named "Todd"
- the main character repeats their own name more than 30 times
- it's a faraway planet that looks like either northern california's forests or the woods outside atlanta
- Marco Beltrami is the composer (sorry)
- nearly 10% of the movie's runtime is credits
- character refer to vague nouns with capital letters like "The Noise" instead of "the noise" and even though you never see it written down, you just know

this movie stinks, but i do think…

here are the notes i wrote while watching the movie (they may not make sense if you haven't watched it):

they can hear some people's thoughts but not others?
and they can hear other people's thought from long distances but not others?
if they can hear everyone's thoughts and the movie just picks what the thoughts are, wouldn't men go absolutely INSANE.
the only thing that makes sense is if they choose to hear other people's thoughts.
but wait, how would they hear some thoughts but not others, is there an on/off switch so they can do so? aren't we always thinking?
if so, the times they choose to hear someone's thoughts, the thoughts are pretty impactful or important, that's…