“I am Todd Hewitt.”

From Chaos Walking.

When the native species, the Spackle, attacked the human settlers on the New World planet, the survivors were faced with a far more dangerous life than they expected.  Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) has grown up in this world where all the women were killed by the Spackle, leaving only men and their audible thoughts, something they call the Noise.  Raised by his adoptive parents, Ben (Demián Bichir) and Cillian (Kurt Sutter), Todd is just waiting for a chance to prove he’s a man.  Todd, his family, and his dog, Manchee, live in Prentisstown along with number of men that represent that lone survivors of the Spackle war.  After Todd and Manchee stumble into a crash site with a lone female survivor named Viola (Daisy Ridley), he runs to tell the mayor, Mr. Prentiss (Mads Mikkelsen). The mayor takes the Noise-less Viola into town, and initially seems nice, but she quickly learns that he wants to use her soon-arriving settler mothership to steal control of New World. Viola runs back to Todd’s to hide, and when he decides to protect her from Prentiss, Ben and Cillian tell Todd that he’ll have to leave Prentisstown for a place called Farbranch, another colony they hid from him.  When the mayor, his son (Nick Jonas), Aaron (David Oyelowo) the town’s pastor, and other Prentisstown men come to take Viola back, Ben gives Todd his mother’s journal and tells them to run.  Confused and terrified, Todd and Viola flee the small army and get to Farbranch.  When they arrive in to find men and women living there, the mayor Hildy (Cynthia Erivo) promises to keep Todd and Viola safe from the Prentisstown men.  While Todd struggles to learn Prentisstown’s true history, their race to warn Viola’s ship proves to Todd that everything he’s ever known is a lie.

This long-awaited film adaptation of the bestselling dystopian young adult series is full of action, humor, and heart. The special effects used to create the Noise are a brilliant brought-to-life-from-the-page element. While it differs slightly from the book, new and old fans alike will find Chaos Walking a captivating story from start to finish.

| Rated: PG-13| Running Time: 109 minutes |Genre: action/fantasy/sci-fi|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4 of 10|Nudity: 1 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 3 of 10

|AVAILABLE FOR HOME VIEWING|