The Darkest Minds

Name: The Darkest Minds
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: August 3, 2018
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 39
Cast: Allie McCulloch, Amandla Stenberg, Bradley Whitford, Carson Holmes, Catherine Dyer

2018

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20th Century Fox | Release Date: August 3, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: Allie McCulloch, Amandla Stenberg, Bradley Whitford, Carson Holmes, Catherine Dyer, Connor Murdock, Drew Scheid, Golden Brooks, Gwendoline Christie, Harris Dickinson, Makenzie Collier, Mandy Moore, Mark O'Brien, Miya Cech, Patrick Gibson, Peyton Wich, Skylan Brooks, Wade Williams, Wallace Langham

Summary: When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which theWhen teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough and they must wage a resistance, using their collective power to take back control of their future.… Expand

Director: Jennifer Yuh

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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William Bibbiani

Jul 31, 2018

The Darkest Minds is smart. It has a lot to convey to its young audience, and the strong cast does everything in their power to illustrate those themes and to bring their characters to earnest, believable life. But it’s not quite thrilling enough to sneak its mission statements under anyone’s noses, so it plays a bit more like a manifesto than a sci-fi thriller. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jul 31, 2018

Without watering down the action, Nelson soft-pedals the most disturbing ideas in such a way that young audiences won’t be overwhelmed with gloom, instead inviting them to identify with the film’s empowered female heroine as she struggles to overcome her crippling lack of self-confidence and embrace what makes her special. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Jul 31, 2018

The film zips through its final act at breakneck speed, doling out answers and riling up new conflicts with little care for how they impact a standalone story, just setting up for a franchise that might never come to fruition. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Aug 14, 2018

The film shares far too many tropes with other YA sci-fi properties – The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Divergent – to make a mark in the unforgiving post-apocalyptic wasteland of the adolescent market. That said, the casting is strong. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Aug 3, 2018

It’s a promising start, but one that ultimately doesn’t quite deliver. The movie’s plot feels scant, as if it’s only skimming the surface of what it’s like to be a child who has no one to trust or turn to in this world. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Aug 3, 2018

A generic and frankly very tedious compendium of YA clichés. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Aug 2, 2018

The movie is 105 minutes long but seems about 45 minutes longer, with uneventful stretches and at least three sections where the action stops for musical interludes featuring goopy pop music. Read full review

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IvyCoalson

Jun 29, 2021

Beautiful movie I loved it and the cast it left so much open for the second movie and I cant wait for that one too

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talahhammoud

Nov 2, 2018

awesome movie i loved it so much definitely one of the best ones ive ever seen id love to see a sequel coming out soon ill keep my fingers crossed through all the bad reviews and the hate this movie is getting though, yall people dont know awesomeness when you see it sorry

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GhostDreamshade

Aug 3, 2018

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them (especially the protagonist, Ruby) and I found the system of powers interesting and logical. The movie does at times feel aI didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them (especially the protagonist, Ruby) and I found the system of powers interesting and logical. The movie does at times feel a bit light for the dystopian world it’s set in, but I feel like it hits on some heavier themes without being grotesque, which is important for the audience it was targeting. It wasn’t a perfect movie, of course, but I don’t think it deserves the strongly negative reviews I’ve notice. At the very least, I feel like its a movie worth seeing so you can form your own opinions.… Expand

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MiloGray

May 27, 2020

This film had the ability to be soooo good but, for some reason, with the shoddy acting and terrible music with a quite boring cast and awful story line, this film didn’t turn out to be good at all. Also, what’s the deal with all these voice overs??? What I will say, however, is that thisThis film had the ability to be soooo good but, for some reason, with the shoddy acting and terrible music with a quite boring cast and awful story line, this film didn’t turn out to be good at all. Also, what’s the deal with all these voice overs??? What I will say, however, is that this movie is one that you may wanna watch as a last resort - like when you’re ill or just really bored. There r sooooo many better films out there though so I’d just say choose one of those. I just feel sorry for some of the well known actors in this movie and I think they were really let down by the outcome… Expand

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EgeBerk

Aug 8, 2018

This kind of movies are popular in the same divergent and hunger games stranger things is an example of this, but these films are not the same beauty as the subject. Like I wrote in the title, it came to me like a children's movie. I became a little amateur. I do not like acting. obviously IThis kind of movies are popular in the same divergent and hunger games stranger things is an example of this, but these films are not the same beauty as the subject. Like I wrote in the title, it came to me like a children's movie. I became a little amateur. I do not like acting. obviously I was not bored watching movies in the cinema but I felt like I was bored in this movie My last words are good subject but not so good. Acting is bad I do not like the way I think it is bad :( :( :( :( :(… Expand

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JLuis_001

Sep 26, 2018

Have you seen the Fox series ''Gifted'' that ties to the X-Men franchise? It demands more time but it's kind of the same deal and it's way better.

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Broyax

Jan 7, 2023

Une grosse merde woke avec un agenda SJW à la clé, à savoir de la diversité forcenée de partout, tout le temps (des gens de couleur partout, tout le temps) et des préoccupations de justice sociale à deux dollars et demi (on est ‘différent’, on est donc persécuté ! salauds de société naz…Une grosse merde woke avec un agenda SJW à la clé, à savoir de la diversité forcenée de partout, tout le temps (des gens de couleur partout, tout le temps) et des préoccupations de justice sociale à deux dollars et demi (on est ‘différent’, on est donc persécuté ! salauds de société naz… etc, etc).

En l’occurrence, ces ados mutants et leurs pouvoirs surhumains, un thème déjà vu parmi la licence foisonnante X-Men mais traitée ici sans nuance et victimisée au maximum : l’on erre ici comme des étagères cassées en pleine crise des droits civiques des mutants à la mords-moi-le-noeud…

C’est tout simplement insupportable à regarder, à entendre et à suivre… nous nous rebellons instinctivement devant ce film-étron, lequel s’avère par ailleurs chiant, chiatique et complètement con et nul à chier, de toute façon ! une daube wokiste de plus qui donne la nausée avec sa propagande nauséabonde d’extrême-gauche.… Expand

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