With a cast as good as this and a concept this inventive, I expected much, much more. More than anything, it ended up being a very frustrating watch for me, simply because the entire film was a cool concept, but it never ran anywhere with it. After years and years of delays due to reshoots, Chaos Walking is finally available on-demand. This is a film that was likely doomed from the start, but nobody knew that. In this dangerous landscape, Viola's life is threatened - and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet's dark secrets. It leaves room to go back to the novel and enjoy its additional sequences and context, and go back to the movie for its action and visual elements.In the not-too-distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by "the Noise" - a force that puts all their thoughts on display.
While I think Chaos Walking could have benefitted from a longer runtime to flesh out some of the major differences in the novel we missed in the movie, overall the film does do an adequate job of keeping the novel’s story intact. Plus, in the movie Mads Mikkelsen’s Mayor villain seems to have died in a final face off between him and Todd, perhaps with the possibility of surviving his plummet? But in the books, the Mayor takes over all of the New World, leading into a bigger plotline for him in the rest of the trilogy. Then, there’s a lot that happens on the abandoned ship they use for communication in the film, such as Viola killing him so she can contact said ship, but in the book she does it so Todd doesn’t have more blood on his hands. But, in the novels, this doesn’t happen until the second book. One major plot point of both is Viola needing to contact her ship and in the movie she successfully does so by the end of Chaos Walking. Going hand in hand with the hurried third act of Chaos Walking as a movie is a few notable changes to the movie not found in the book. (Image credit: (Lionsgate)) The End Of Chaos Walking
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