Chaos Walking: Neon NZ Film Review
Chaos Walking: Neon NZ Film Review Less wrought than many other young adult dystopian sagas, Doug Liman's take on The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, manages to both intrigue and confound in its execution. Spider-Man's Tom Holland is Todd, who lives on a world which forces the manifestations of male thoughts. This phenomenon, known as The Noise, provides an unfiltered access into Todd's neuroses, and also those around him. Brought up to believe all the women in his village died, Todd's astounded to come across Daisy Ridley's Viola, a space girl who literally fell from the sky in a starship crash. But when the town's mayor, David Prentiss (Mads Mikkelsen, replete in a fur coat and foppish hat) finds out a woman is among them, a desperate hunt begins.... It's fair to say that much of Chaos Walking feels like a set up for a franchise, rather than a fully rounded adventure. That's part of its failing, as Liman feels like the script he's direct...