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Chaos Walking (2021)
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality where all thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Chaos Walking is a 2021 sci-fi dystopian action film directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford. It is based on Ness’s science fiction trilogy Chaos Walking, adapting its first book, 2008’s The Knife of Never Letting Go. It stars Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas and David Oyelowo.
It follows a young man who lives in a dystopian world without women, where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in streams of images, words and sounds, called “Noise”. When a woman crash-lands on the planet, he protects her from danger.
Announced in 2011, the film underwent several rewrites from a draft by Charlie Kaufman, with Jamie Linden, John Lee Hancock, Gary Spinelli, Lindsey Beer, Christopher Ford and Ness revising it further. Liman was later announced as director in 2016, and principal photography began in 2017. Originally set to release on March 1, 2019, it was removed from schedule to accommodate the film’s reshoots in April 2019 after poor test screenings.
The film premiered in South Korea on February 24, 2021, and in the United States on March 5, 2021. It received generally negative reviews from critics who criticized the film’s underdeveloped plot, uneven pacing, lack of character development, Ridley and Holland’s chemistry, and deviation from the source material’s themes and message. The film was also a commercial failure, grossing $27 million worldwide against its $100 million budget and resulting in a write-down for Lionsgate.
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Viola doesn’t need protection, really; she’s mechanically capable, and can fight. But she does need a guide through the wilderness to take her to find a transmitter left over from a previous mission, which will enable her to call for help.
There’s also a not-too-subtle commentary on the differences between masculinity and femininity as it’s typically constructed by societies. Notice that the men are very easy to read, for better and worse, while the women keep secrets and possess ancient knowledge than can heal the men.
Not that we get much more than a few slivers of any of this. The film is less than two hours long, and it tries to cover as much ground as a season of a TV show while pacing itself like a trailer. When it pauses to catch its breath—as in a long scene of one character reading aloud to another—you get a glimpse of the simpler, more focused, more rewarding film that might’ve been.
Spending most of the film’s running time on horseback, wearing a lush, long fur coat and floppy-brimmed hat which channels all the decadent fops that Marlon Brando played after middle age, and delivering his lines in a combination purring Euro-cadence and frontier drawl, he’s always perched on the knife’s-edge of hamminess. But it’s impossible to deny that somehow, mysteriously, like Lebowski’s rug, he ties the whole thing together.
Kudos to Liman and his collaborators (including a sound team consisting of more than three dozen people) for showing us something we haven’t exactly seen before, outside of a few stray scenes or sequences in telepathic horror or superhero pictures where the main characters have to learn how to selectively screen out the data that their highly advanced senses/brains are vacuuming up. “Chaos Walking” immerses the viewer in a different kind of cinematic headspace, creating a film that gradually teaches the viewer how to watch it.
It takes a while to get used to the way these characters interact—particularly the way they shield their thoughts from others by repeating neutral words and phrases like mantras—and how their hidden or revealed thoughts are visualized in the halos around their heads.
But once you’re immersed, it’s a powerful experience that lingers in the mind long after the film’s many disappointments have started to fade. How can a person last even an hour in a world like this one without going mad, or making another person want to kill them? To quote Bob Dylan’s “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),” “…If my thought-dreams could be seen/You’d put my head in a guillotine.”
- Matt Zoller Seitz –  Roger Ebert
- Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.
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Chaos Walking (2021) Credits
Chaos Walking (2021)
109 minutes
Cast
Daisy Ridley as Viola Eade
Tom Holland as Todd Hewitt
Mads Mikkelsen as Mayor David Prentiss
Demián Bichir as Ben Moore
Cynthia Erivo as Hildy
Nick Jonas as Davy Prentiss Jr.
David Oyelowo as Aaron
Kurt Sutter as Cillian Boyd
Mylène Dinh-Robic as Julie
Director
- Doug Liman
Writer (based upon the book “The Knife of Never Letting Go” by)
- Patrick Ness
Writer
- Patrick Ness
- Christopher Ford
Cinematographer
- Ben Seresin
Editor
- Andrew Mondshein
Composer
- Marco Beltrami
- Brandon Roberts
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Chaos Walking (2021)Â Plot
In 2257 AD, the colonists of the planet New World, all men, have been afflicted with a condition called the Noise, which causes everyone to see and hear each other’s thoughts. The colonists were involved in a bitter war with the native humanoid species referred to as The Spackle, a war that ostensibly killed all female colonists, while half the men survived.
Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown with his adoptive fathers, Ben Moore and Cillian Boyd. Other residents include the preacher Aaron, the town’s mayor David Prentiss, and his son Davy. Prentiss has learned to control his Noise, making his thoughts difficult to see and hear. A spaceship that lost contact with the First Colony approaches New World and a scout ship is sent to investigate the planet, but it crashes. One day, Todd discovers someone stealing something and chases the thief, only to come upon the crash site.
Todd returns to the town and tries to keep quiet, but the other men hear and see his thoughts about the crashed ship. They head to investigate the crash scene and scavenge some parts of the ship, but find no survivors. While Todd is alone, he meets Viola, the ship’s only survivor.
He is shocked to see a girl, as he has never seen one before. The men from Prentisstown capture Viola and she is brought to the mayor’s home, where she is questioned about where she came from. Prentiss explains to her what the Noise is and what has happened on their planet. While he leaves to go speak to the men, Davy is charged with keeping an eye on her. Davy unwittingly toys with one of Viola’s gadgets, which causes it to shoot large holes in the walls, helping Viola escape.
During her escape, Viola overhears Prentiss talking about preventing her from contacting the colony’s mothership, intercepting their landing, killing them while they are still under cryosleep, and scavenging the ship. Viola hides in Todd’s family’s barn, where Todd eventually finds her. Todd tries to hide Viola, when one of Prentiss’ men arrives looking for her. Ben tells Todd about another settlement called Farbranch and says Viola will be safe there.
Viola escapes on a motorcycle while Todd chases after her on one of the horses. Prentiss and the men arrive at the farm, demanding Viola back as they believe she is a spy. Davy kills Cillian, and Ben is forced to join them. Meanwhile, Todd catches up to Viola and the two begin a journey to Farbranch, accompanied by Todd’s dog, Manchee.
During the journey, Viola reveals to Todd that she is from a large Colony Ship carrying over four thousand passengers and that her parents died during the 64 year-long journey from Earth to New World. Todd reveals he never knew his real parents. When they encounter a Spackle, Todd attempts to kill it in self-defense, but Viola stops him because it does not appear to be dangerous. They arrive at Farbranch, a town inhabited by men, women and children, some of whom are displeased with Todd’s presence, because he is from Prentisstown.
Todd discovers his mother’s diary, but Viola reads it to him because he cannot. The diary reveals that the women were not killed by the native aliens, but rather by Prentiss and the men of Prentisstown. The men could not stand not knowing the thoughts of the women, when they could hear theirs, which drove them crazy. Angered, Todd realizes that everything he had been told was a lie. Prentiss and his men arrive, again demanding Viola.
Ben tries to get Todd to surrender Viola, but Todd is upset at him for lying. Ben uses an image of Viola to distract Prentiss and his men, while Todd and Viola escape. Aaron chases them. They come upon a boat, and, as they escape, Aaron kills Manchee, further enraging Todd.
The next day, Viola and Todd arrive at the ruins of the first colony ship. They enter it and try to send a signal to the colony ship, but the antenna is damaged, so Todd attempts to repair it. When Prentiss and his men arrive, Todd surrenders himself, as Prentiss is holding Ben hostage. Aaron goes inside to kill Viola, but she immolates him with one of her gadgets. Todd appears, but Prentiss shoots Ben.
Todd goes to him and, unknown to Prentiss, Ben gives him a knife. Todd engages Prentiss, but he uses illusions of himself to distract Todd and shoots him. As he is about to kill Todd, Todd uses illusions of his mother and other women, calling Prentiss a coward. Viola pushes Prentiss off the cliff ledge to his death. The colony ship appears in the sky, causing Davy and the remaining Prentisstown men to flee.
Todd wakes up in the colony ship’s medical room, almost fully healed. Viola takes him to meet other colonists.
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Chaos Walking (2021)Â Box office
The film grossed $13.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $13.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $27.1 million, against a production budget of $100 million.
In North America, it was released alongside Raya and the Last Dragon and Boogie, and made $1.3 million from 1,980 theaters on its first day of release. It went on to debut to $3.7 million, finishing third at the box office. Deadline Hollywood wrote that the film was “poised to lose money” for Lionsgate, and Lionsgate “has already written off the pic’s loss.”
The film made $2.3 million (–40%) in its second weekend, remaining in third. After its third weekend, where it grossed $1.2 million, Variety said the film would “result in a massive write-down for the studio.”Â
In South Korea, the film grossed $503,140 in its opening weekend, finishing fifth at the box office.
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Chaos Walking (2021) Critical Response
Reviews for the film criticized it for “poor execution and conventional, underdeveloped characters.” Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 21% of 145 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.5/10. The site’s critics consensus reads: “Chaos Walking sets out on a potentially interesting path, but this dystopian adventure badly bungles its premise and limps toward the finish.”
According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on 32 critics, the film received “generally unfavorable reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B” on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 70% of audience members gave it a positive score, with 43% saying they would definitely recommend it.
Writing for IndieWire, David Ehrlich gave the film a grade of C− and said, “Despite its strange conceit and a few buried hints as to what a more courageous film might have done with it, the movie version of the first Chaos Walking book (published as ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’) is such a dull and ordinary thing that it can’t help but get engulfed by the shadow of its own missed potential.”
Peter Debruge of Variety said the film “quickly wears out its welcome” and wrote: “When it comes to confrontations, the movie wimps out, putting more effort into New World-building than in the largely generic characters who populate it.” DiscussingFilm blamed the film’s pacing for slowing down what is an otherwise enjoyable dystopian tale with “charismatic and charming” performances from Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley.
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