Chaos Walking is a new Sci-Fi Fantasy with an apocalyptic feel. While it is not going to be nominated for any awards, the story of a planet some light years from earth that is populated and rustic is entertaining and a good escape. Upon the arrival of Viola a young woman played by Daisy Ridley, Todd, played by Tom Holland a young man on the planet comes across her after her space ship crashes. He is shocked and confused as there are as far as he knows, no women on his planet.
The makers of the film is creative in the way the story takes place. One may expect expensive sets and a lot of special effects but there are actually few. This is where the movie has an apocalyptic feel. The direction and editing does a solid job here and the sets we see largely takes place in forest scenes. While there are some forms of transportation from the past, most of the settlers on the planet are dependent on horses and their simple lives are centered around gardening. It is here that Chaos Walking comes across as a futuristic western.
Mads Mikkelsen plays the mayor of a town where Todd is from, his son played by Nick Jones, seeks to do away with Viola. The Mayor is threatened and disturbed due to one of the unique attributes of the story where the men can hear and see each others thoughts but women can't have their thoughts read. This is another area where the film does a good job at presenting a futuristic story without tons of special effects.
While the movie is entertaining and quite enjoyable there are some drawbacks specifically where the story is not developed as nicely as I would have liked and it is lacking in character development.
There is a provoking concept presented though through one of the characters called Preacher. He is one that has a hatred and lack of understanding of women and preaches hell fire and damnation, seeking to destroy women and anyone who protects them. His focus is on evil as opposed to the good or possibility of good of those around him. He comes across as evil and in one scene with his hatred and desire to kill we see the primary character Todd develop a hatred for Preacher. We see the need to show love to others and we see a perspective of preachers and religion that many in society have as a result of the focus on damnation and perceived hatred many seem to have in today's world. Ultimately there is a price to pay when hatred is a primary focus whether we want to accept it or not.
Chaos Walking, directed nicely by Doug Liman is an entertaining film. It is far better than I was expecting but that doesn't mean it's an epic film. It is one worth seeing if you like futuristic themes. It is one of the more entertaining ventures into this genre I've seen in some time. I suspect the movie, based on the novel "The Knife of Never Letting Go" the first book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy will have the other stories told. If there are more, I'll be going to see them.
Chaos Walking is a movie I found enjoyable, it's one worth walking to the theater to see so for the number of letters in the word walking, on the scale of 1 - 10, I give it an enjoyable 7
To see the trailer for the film, click the following link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgGkpp5ReU
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