By the time the third act started, I began to wonder where the plot was really going. They were the glue that held the movie together overall but with supporting performances by David Oyelowo, Mads Mikkelsen, and a couple of others that I won't ruin in this review, it should have been so much better.
Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley both deliver solid performances here and I enjoyed their early comradery. This set-up was great, and the film's idea hooked me from the start, but it's almost as if the second half of the film didn't know where to go. Since he knows his way around, she uses his thoughts as a map/guide to find her way around. As Todd is going about his day, he stumbles across Viola, a woman who is the only survivor of a ship that has crashed on this planet.
Every one of their thoughts is heard out loud unless they're able to suppress it. On a planet where the only human survivors are men, with not a single woman in sight, these people must deal with the fact that this planet has given them what they refer to as "noise." This in turn puts the mind of every single man on display. 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.
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