Chaos Walking (2021)

it's hard to believe a whole town of men would agree to murder all the women and girls. And still be okay with it decades later. And then we find out there are other towns all around this planet (called "New World") with men, women and children, and they also are okay with a whole town of men who murdered a whole town of women and girls.

And it also doesn't make any sense that a boy (Todd) would grow up in a violent rural setting and have little to no fighting skills. He's supposedly good with a knife. But when he gets a chance to kill the murderous leader of Prentisstown --- who had one of his fathers murdered, and shot the other --- he pauses long enough to allow him to head butt him and get the advantage. "What are you waiting for Todd?"

Todd has no problem killing one of the native humanoids that were already on the planet before humans arrived, who have done him nothing. But when he finally gets a chance to kill the mayor who murdered his mother, one of his fathers, and all of the females in his town --- now he has trouble?

Also he's a boy who cannot keep up with the lifelong female astronaut Viola while traveling through the wilderness. He grew up on a farm. She on a spaceship. But she's in better shape?

He has so much trouble climbing down the inside of a crashed spaceship on a rope, Viola has to ask him if he's okay. But he seems to have no trouble climbing up the same crashed spaceship without a rope, to fix the antennae.

Todd just comes across as a retard. He cannot control his thoughts. He can't read. He confronts the evil mayor with absolutely no plan. Gets himself and his remaining father shot.

These nonsensical details are constant throughout this movie. Viola and Todd get a hold of a gun during their odessy but they don't take it with them although they know the murderous townsmen are chasing them with horses and guns.

Todd is paddling away from a townsman who's chasing them. The townsman catches up, and attacks Viola. So Todd drops the paddle and starts punching him ineffectively. Why didn't he just hit him with the paddle?

Viola sets one of the murderous townsmen on fire after he tries to kill her while she's trying to contact her orbiting ship. He walks off burning. She just sits there watching him slowly walk off burning. Knowing the others are closing in on her. Right next to the touchscreen she needs to use to notify the orbiting ship, instead of notifying the orbiting ship. What is she waiting for? Isn't time of the essence?

This is the year 2257. These earthlings traveled to a new planet in a spaceship. But most of the humans now living on this new planet are dumber and less sophisticated than country folk in the 1600s.

The cinematography, special effects and acting are good. But the writing is terrible. Instead of "Chaos Walking", it should have been called "Chaos Writing