Review of Chaos Walking (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 07 Jun 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

It is true that the Young Adult dystopia has been an established formula for a decade now, with a teenage couple bound by an ambiguous and often conflicted relationship but still united in resisting the social system and ready to fight against the established power. Equally true that these stories represent a way to overturn unlikely youthful eversions into safe consumerist evasions. It is also true that this film has a meaningless script, contains a brutal anti-animalist scene, threatens one or two sequels and was a box office flop. Yet Tom Holland's candor and his being such a credible "sui generis" hero in his clumsiness and vulnerability gets the miracle of making the aforementioned flaws forget for wide moments.