CHENNAI: As dystopian dramas go, “Chaos Walking” makes a fair attempt at bringing a strange reality to the silver screen but is let down by heavy-handed story-telling and a weak script. Viewers are transported to a world populated exclusively by men — perhaps the only novel aspect of the film — as the women have all been killed. It is in this bizarre reality that director Doug Liman sets his adventure in 2257 AD. Rather than the usual flying cars and slick tech that so often populates futuristic films, we see a return to primitive life with unpaved roads and men riding horseback. What is unique to this place is “noise” — one can hear others’ thoughts. A few have learnt to control this, though not one young man, Todd Hewitt, played by Tom Holland.