For a sci-fi dystopian thriller about dark secrets and not being able to conceal your inner-most thoughts—and hide, you know, secrets— Lionsgate’s “Chaos Walking” is extremely uninspired and even unimaginative.
Based on the first novel in the “Chaos Walking” series, “The Knife of Never Letting Go,” by Patrick Ness, the film’s setting is the future, and a planet that humans have colonized because Earth’s environment is no longer sustainable. Dubbed, “The New World,” this Earth-like planet has a curious byproduct side effect—humans can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called the Noise (visualized as a purple cloud over everyone’s head that is constantly buzzing and chattering on about something).
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