Director Doug Liman's futuristic Chaos Walking, based on a series of young adult sci-fi novels, is set light years from Earth in a world where the thoughts of men are manifested in light and images called Noise. Women are not so gifted (or cursed).
A "thoughtful" young man named Todd (the ever-winning Tom Holland) is being reared by two men (Demián Bichir and Kurt Sutter) who are farming land purposefully set apart from the rest of a settlement run by the scar-faced / fur-coated Mayor (the ever-intriguing Mads Mikkelsen), when a young woman named Viola (Daisy Riley of the Star Wars reboot) crashes from the sky into the womanless settlement and evinces for the Mayor and a mad preacher played by David Oyelowo that trouble is coming.
The film, which is more entertaining than not, introduces lots of notions and prompts tons of questions -- the reason for the colonization, the origins of the Noise, why it is attached to male DNA, what of the marauding humanoids called Spackle. These were quite likely fleshed out in the books but they kept the movie from developing into a fully coherent narrative for me.
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