The first-time director, Wes Ball, is a visual effects artist by trade, but he makes good on the plot’s wildly intriguing, if totally artificial, premise. In much the same cryptic style as the television series Lost, the film lays a perfectly spaced breadcrumb-trail of clues – a strange slogan on a crate here, a stranger sequence of numbers there – though unlike Lost, everything ties up more or less coherently, with a heavy side-order of sequel-teasing.
But Ball has the advantage of a likeable (and oddly British) supporting cast to sell the concept: in addition to Poulter, there’s Kaya Scodelario as Teresa, a teenage girl who appears mysteriously in the camp one morning, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, from Game of Thrones, who plays Newt, the colony’s waifish second-in-command.
The action sequences aren’t particularly well-organised: a close-up encounter with a dead griever, bleeding slime and crusted over with rust, is so vividly realised that you wish some prosthetic models had been used in the busy combat scenes, alongside the mandatory CGI. But for the most part, the film is rough and tactile, and draws you deep into its puzzle-box world. Behind the far-fetched window-dressing, this is a story about what it means to be a teenager, lying awake at night prickling with fear and plotting your escape, while the world rumbles and reforms itself around you.
The first-time director, Wes Ball, is a visual effects artist by trade, but he makes good on the plot’s wildly intriguing, if totally artificial, premise. In much the same cryptic style as the television series Lost, the film lays a perfectly spaced breadcrumb-trail of clues – a strange slogan on a crate here, a stranger sequence of numbers there – though unlike Lost, everything ties up more or less coherently, with a heavy side-order of sequel-teasing.But Ball has the advantage of a likeable (and oddly British) supporting cast to sell the concept: in addition to Poulter, there’s Kaya Scodelario as Teresa, a teenage girl who appears mysteriously in the camp one morning, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, from Game of Thrones, who plays Newt, the colony’s waifish second-in-command.The action sequences aren’t particularly well-organised: a close-up encounter with a dead griever, bleeding slime and crusted over with rust, is so vividly realised that you wish some prosthetic models had been used in the busy combat scenes, alongside the mandatory CGI. But for the most part, the film is rough and tactile, and draws you deep into its puzzle-box world. Behind the far-fetched window-dressing, this is a story about what it means to be a teenager, lying awake at night prickling with fear and plotting your escape, while the world rumbles and reforms itself around you.
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