Directed by Doug Liman, co-written by Patrick Ness, based on the hit YA novel and starring Tom Holland - what could possibly go wrong? Set in 2257AD on a planet colony where the women have been killed by attacking locals/aliens and all internal thoughts can be heard as a running (voiceover) commentary (and indicated by a CGI haze effect around the speaker's head). The problem when developing the film apparently lay in realising this central conceit on film, and whilst it is a real attempt to achieve it effectively, it makes for an often messy and annoying viewing experience. The overall story is a fairly straightforward cat-and-mouse hunt, but the world-creating is done reasonably well. Tom Holland is as energetic, committed and engagingly watchable as ever, wringing the last drop out of whatever scraps are available, but sadly Daisy Ridley almost fails to register in a very underwritten role as the crash-landed female being hunted down by this utterly patriarchal society. Chaos Walking is not the disaster that some critics have made it out to be, but it is not especially enjoyable or entertaining.
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