Directed by:
Jake PaltrowScreenplay:
Jake PaltrowCinematography:
Giles NuttgensComposer:
Nathan JohnsonCast:
Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Aimee Mullins, Robert Hobbs, Andy McPhee, Liah O'Prey, Carel Nel, David Butler, Alex McGregorVOD (1)
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Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet. Water dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth’s precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Mary (Elle Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary’s boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs; he wants Ernest’s land for himself and will go to any length to get it. (Icon Home Entertainment)
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I don’t understand why Young Ones has such a bad score. In my opinion, it’s a pretty decent post-apocalyptic realistic sci-fi with a tinge of Western. Nevertheless, the problem with this movie is that the characters in it aren’t too likeable. It’s also pretty impartial, so you can’t find a single character that would be interesting in any way. The manner of storytelling is interesting as well as the ending that provokes the way old Westerns did. Lady Vengeance strikes again.
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Interesting sci-fi, where the future is only a setting for human drama to take place. As long as Michal Shannon was on the scene, I was entertained, waiting to see how it would unfold. Once Shannon was gone, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Nicholas Hoult took over his role and delivered a good performance, but unfortunately, the story failed to further develop the interesting setting and premise, it simply focused on the consequences of one action.
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