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 McGregorPlots(1)
Set in a futuristic, drought-ridden America, Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) survives in the deserted wasteland whilst maintaining a farm and trying to rediscover a sustainable water supply. Following the hospitalisation of his wife Katherine (Aimee Mullins), Ernest lives with his two children Mary (Elle Fanning) and Jerome (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they try to get enough money together to enable their mother to return home. But their lives are tragically disturbed by the ruthless intervention of Mary's boyfriend Flem (Nicholas Hoult) who wants sole possession of the family land. (Signature Entertainment)
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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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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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