An $125 million studio movie about a human colony on a distant planet of retro-futuristic “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” cosplayers where every man’s internal monologue loudly emanates from his head like overlapping speaker feedback in a synesthesiac cloud of “Noise” so intense that you can see it take shape on screen (and where every woman was killed in a recent war with the indigenous species of humanoid monsters), “Chaos Walking” could’ve and should’ve been the most arrestingly unusual sci-fi blockbuster since “Cloud Atlas.”
That’s certainly what it seemed fated to become in 2012 when Lionsgate hired Charlie Kaufman to adapt the first installment of Patrick Ness’ trilogy and its Film Twitter-like premise into a potential franchise-starter. But the house that “Hunger…