The Darkest Minds
At the point when young people have new powerful capacities, they are viewed as a wellspring of danger by the government and they are locked up. Sixteen-year-old Ruby figures out how to escape from her camp and joins a gathering of escaping young people looking for shelter. This gathering finds that they should face prevailing grown-ups on the abilities of things.
24 December 1961, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
22 January 2001, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
5 May 1967, Eugene, Oregon, USA
10 April 1984, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
7 May 1984, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
August 03, 2018
It's a mildly intriguing premise, but the film doesn't follow through on it with any sort of logic, so the entire story unravels almost as soon as it begins.
August 03, 2018
The film's bittersweet conclusion is strong enough to provide real narrative impetus for the inevitable sequel.
August 02, 2018
What we're left with is a Mad-Libs version of a dystopian YA adaptation done by someone who saw half of an X-Men movie on TV once, with no depth, no new ideas, and no point.
August 03, 2018
Skilled actors can't save derivative, violent YA thriller.
August 03, 2018
Although the film's ending is relatively open-ended, [director Jennifer] Yuh Nelson's message of mobilization is an urgent message, specifically for a young audience, which it goes to great lengths to understand and serve.
August 03, 2018
Even... rushing through a story better articulated in the book, the filmmakers demonstrate that neither they nor this adaptation can be easily written off.
August 03, 2018
"The Darkest Minds" is in desperate need of a spark, any spark. References to "Watership Down" and "Harry Potter" only serve to show how far this film is from the classics it admires.
August 03, 2018
Fills the teen and young adult aimed dystopian movie series void. Predictable but fun enough to recommend. How good it really is will depend on sequels 2 and 3.
August 03, 2018
With each passing day our depressing present begins to resemble dystopian future more and more, so The Darkest Minds may benefit from timing more than actual profundity.
August 03, 2018
The environment in which stories like The Hunger Games or Divergent gained followings has changed, and The Darkest Minds has not adapted to survive it.
August 03, 2018
The Darkest Minds is a solid enough dystopian sci-fi YA adaptation, elevated by Amandla Stenberg's performance, but it won't revive this film trend.
August 03, 2018
Notable for its willingness to display coarse language (kids these days), and nasty behavior - it's a dystopia; when mind-control powers are in play, is it really so surprising that they get used for murder, rape, and torture?
