The Bad Batch

Name: The Bad Batch
Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance
Released: June 23, 2017
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Aye Hasegawa, Diego Luna, E.R. Ruiz, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Momoa

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: June 23, 2017 | R

Starring: Aye Hasegawa, Diego Luna, E.R. Ruiz, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Momoa, Jayda Fink, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Louie Lopez Jr., Suki Waterhouse, Yolonda Ross

Summary: Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) is unceremoniously dumped in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilized society. While trying to orient her unforgiving environment, she is captured by a savage band of cannibals and quickly realizes she'll have to fight her way through her new reality. As Arlen adjusts to life in 'the bad batch' she discovers thatArlen (Suki Waterhouse) is unceremoniously dumped in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilized society. While trying to orient her unforgiving environment, she is captured by a savage band of cannibals and quickly realizes she'll have to fight her way through her new reality. As Arlen adjusts to life in 'the bad batch' she discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who you're standing next to. [Neon]… Expand

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 118 min

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The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Sep 6, 2016

Its salvaged parts combine into an internally incongruous but crazily unique whole. Read full review

Eric Kohn

Sep 6, 2016

The Bad Batch further solidifies the strength of Amirpour’s idiosyncratic vision, which takes familiar details and bends them into spiky bursts of unpredictability. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jun 22, 2017

In addition to presenting a parable about the collapse of society, Amirpour’s film is also a kind of postmodern Adam-and-Eve story. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jun 22, 2017

Amirpour has vision to burn, and inside this not-so-bad batch of splendid atmospherics and half-baked ideas is a leaner, sharper movie trying to chew its way out. Read full review

Richard Brody

Jun 27, 2017

The writer and director, Ana Lily Amirpour, delivers this imaginative tale as a simplistic allegory of the haves and the have-nots; she ruefully delights in the wasteland’s postindustrial wreckage while leaving characters’ thoughts and motives blank. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Jun 22, 2017

While it’s visually arresting, it’s a disappointment. It’s too on the nose as a political allegory, and too lacking in coherent narrative to satisfy as a hipster comedy-drama. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Angelica Jade Bastien

Jun 23, 2017

Violence in The Bad Batch has neither artistic nor narrative purpose. Read full review

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postcynic

Jun 24, 2017

I signed up with Metacritic just to write a review of this film. Some people are calling the director, Ana Lilly Amirpour, the female Tarantino. I can see why: The Bad Batch is stylish, brutal, and has a thumping good musical score. But it also has a humanity and, frankly, a complexity thatI signed up with Metacritic just to write a review of this film. Some people are calling the director, Ana Lilly Amirpour, the female Tarantino. I can see why: The Bad Batch is stylish, brutal, and has a thumping good musical score. But it also has a humanity and, frankly, a complexity that Tarantino lacks. It’s appalling that this film gets only a 62 metacritic score. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen in years: original, dense with meaning, beautifully filmed. Yes, it recycles some Mad Max tropes and scenery, but to really interesting effect. Reviewers who claim the film lacks a coherent center or narrative arc are embarrassingly off-target. What starts out as a straight revenge story becomes increasingly layered, weird and challenging. It looks superficially like a genre film but is actually so much more. Don’t wait to see it on TV because it was definitely made for the big screen, both visually and musically. Just stunning.… Expand

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Kholoured

Jan 20, 2019

I loved this film, It speaks of mercy, forgiveness, and the ability to look deeper into a person, to understand their perspective... Miami man and his group were ashamed that they must cannibalize to survive, hence the loud music and head phones when they took from their victims. But theyI loved this film, It speaks of mercy, forgiveness, and the ability to look deeper into a person, to understand their perspective... Miami man and his group were ashamed that they must cannibalize to survive, hence the loud music and head phones when they took from their victims. But they did what they could to make things less painful, like the tourniquet and shot in arnels arm before amputation, probably numbing solution. Miami mans woman even said I'm sick of this **** sick of it. But in the desert, where I'm sure most wildlife/plant life has been killed off, what do you eat? How do you survive? You have to eat something, our life is a life of consumption in order for us to live something must die. Dogs eat rabbits, rabbits eat grass, grass lives off soil, soil is dead plant and animal matter. Everything comes full circle...

Miami man could have taken advantage sextually several times but didnt, infact he showed courage and killed someone to keep arnel safe, she didn't need her leg to find his daughter. Even showed compassion seen thru his art work and when he covered both of them in a sand storm. You can even see arnels confusion while they sat under the blanket he could have left her out there while he covered himself. She saw that yes he's done horrible things but morally he's more sound then the Dream, who was predatorizing young girls and feeding drugs to the rest of the villagers. All to keep them dependant under the guise that he loved them all for their strangeness, when he was using them all so he could live a soft life in comfort. Miami man showed her that life is not black or white it's grey. This film was about human nature at it's worst and at it's best seen thru Miami man.

I find this film beautiful in it's simplistic complexity and I think the reason most why people hate it is due to its simplicity. There is no plot, their is no love story, there is no guidance. As you get in every film they take your hand and lead down the path... this film is like the bible you see what you want to see and everyone sees it differently. It is meant to be vague for a reason… Expand

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3ebfan511

Jul 13, 2017

If you like post-apocalyptic but also slow moving art-house films...you will like this movie. (It reminded a little of Fall-Out meets Mad Max, with a much slower pace, and from a female directors perspective with a female protagonist.) If you like post apocalyptic films and expect aIf you like post-apocalyptic but also slow moving art-house films...you will like this movie. (It reminded a little of Fall-Out meets Mad Max, with a much slower pace, and from a female directors perspective with a female protagonist.) If you like post apocalyptic films and expect a shoot-em up action film this is NOT the film for you as it is not Mad-Max in the sense of non stop action but more like the Mad Max where he is wondering around...and searching for something (also good.) It does have some action though and it does feel like a female version of a tarrantino film with interesting visuals and tension, similar to QT's style, but also its own unique version of that. I liked it a lot but it is slow at times, but worth seeing for anyone that can tolerate slower paced films, and especially...if you like that genre. Solid 8/10. Oh yes, it also is allegorical to our current issues in the country so that added a very interesting layer to it too which you often do not find in a tarrantino film which is sometimes just mindless action...this film meanders plot wise but also has something going on in the background and is like a slower, more thoughtful version of a QT film, and possibly equally good in its own way.… Expand

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abm0

Nov 19, 2017

A slower, more contemplative (sometimes trippy) and less vehicle-racing Mad Max. I liked it. I was afraid it would be a waste of time because of the ratings, but it really wasn't, it's a good movie.

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trogdor

Jun 27, 2017

If you watched a 10 minute clip of The Bad Batch at any point in the movie you would think 'Wow, that looks really good'. But the film really falls apart once you actually sit down and watch it in its entirety. @postcynic Calling Amirpour "the female Tarantino" is like calling my dog "theIf you watched a 10 minute clip of The Bad Batch at any point in the movie you would think 'Wow, that looks really good'. But the film really falls apart once you actually sit down and watch it in its entirety. @postcynic Calling Amirpour "the female Tarantino" is like calling my dog "the female Tarantino" (I don't have a dog). I have no problem giving praise to a filmmaker but what you are saying is asinine. Are you Ana Lily's grandmother? Clearly there is some bias there.… Expand

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LeZee

Feb 4, 2018

In the land of savages!

The overall concept was good, but I did not like the initiation. I don't like any film of cannibalism. I don't know why such films are made. What's the point! Definitely not entertainment or art. It could only encourage such savage culture. So I thought I made aIn the land of savages!

The overall concept was good, but I did not like the initiation. I don't like any film of cannibalism. I don't know why such films are made. What's the point! Definitely not entertainment or art. It could only encourage such savage culture. So I thought I made a mistake picking it to watch. Except the opening, the rest of the film was different. Then ended as a just below average product.

In a near future, where all the criminals, illegal immigrants are dumped in a waste desert land. So they have made their own system, divided by two. One the savages and the other is kind of civilised, but not without flaws. A new arrival who experience from both the end, had to decide where she belongs when a series of bad events had taken place.

Here comes another film from a woman director. Her previous film was one of the worst in the history of filmdom. And again this is not her best work either. Though I liked the cast. They all performed well, particularly Jim Carrey. Yes, I did not recognise him at first. Then there's Keanu Reeves. But Waterhouse was good. I wish her a good future. Generally not recommended, but then it's your choice!

5/10… Expand

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imthenoob

Oct 20, 2017

The parts were there for a fantastic dystopian style film. The scenery was great and the cast is filled with talented and capable actors and actresses. The story however just goes no where. It's boring and painfully uninteresting. Nothing really happens, Nothing original that is and theyThe parts were there for a fantastic dystopian style film. The scenery was great and the cast is filled with talented and capable actors and actresses. The story however just goes no where. It's boring and painfully uninteresting. Nothing really happens, Nothing original that is and they waste such a talented cast by giving them so little dialogue to work with.… Expand

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