![]() We're told that the indigenous population killed all the women (including Todd's mother) during a war between themselves and the colonizers. The mayor of the village, Mads Mikkelsen's David Prentiss, has built a religion of enforced, ritualized hyper-masculinity, with men affirming that they derive strength from The Noise around their heads, chastising themselves and each other for showing weakness and expressing feelings, and persecuting any man who does on grounds that he's "acting like a woman." ![]() Earthlings have left their degraded homeworld to seed new systems. Holland's character, Todd Hewitt, is the naive teenage son of a farmer (Demian Bechir) in a small village, Prentisstown, on a backwater planet. The colonists here appear to have been forgotten about. A team-up of two Disney franchise stars, Tom Holland (aka the MCU Spider-Man) and Daisy Ridley (Rey from the " Star Wars" sequels), "Chaos Walking" takes place some time in the future. ![]() We're getting ahead of ourselves-this review hasn't even described what the movie is about yet-but it's easy to do, because "Chaos Walking" is more satisfying to think about than it is to watch. ![]()
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