There's a love story, too, sort of-although Todd's basically sexless, pre-adolescent way of relating to women and Ridley's super-capable, big-sisterly vibes (also her energy in the 'Star Wars' movies) ensure that any chemistry between them is suppressed or re-directed. Todd is a more proficient fighter and killer, but The Noise in his head keeps giving away his position, as well as the thoughts he wants to keep private.) The sci-fi elements coexist with a wilderness survival picture aspect, as well as fragments of an old-fashioned Hollywood Western about the politics of a civilization in a 'frontier' built on colonized land. (Of course it's debatable which of these two is better equipped for survival. Pretty soon we're in the territory of a benevolent sci-fi drama like 'E.T.' or ' Starman' revolving around a psychically bonded duo, one of which is more highly evolved than the other. But she does need a guide through the wilderness to take her to find a transmitter left over from a previous mission, which will enable her to call for help. Viola doesn't need protection, really she's mechanically capable, and can fight. Of course Todd finds her and develops a crush on her, and it's only a matter of time before he has to protect her against an all-male mob, most of which has never seen a real, live 'girl' before. Ridley's character, Viola Eade, falls into this macho cesspool when the spacecraft bearing her toward the planet malfunctions, depositing her in the woods outside of town, the sole survivor of a brutal crash. 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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