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Young Ones
Directed by
Jake Paltrow
R
2014
1h 40m
Action
,
Western
,
and more
5.8
47%
36%
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Set in the future when water is hard to find, a teenage boy sets out to protect his family and survive.
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Cast of Young Ones
Michael Shannon
Ernest Holm
Nicholas Hoult
Flem Lever
Elle Fanning
Mary Holm
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Jerome Holm
Aimee Mullins
Katherine Holm
Christy Pankhurst
Robbie
Alex McGregor
Sooz
Robert Hobbs
Caleb
David Butler
Sam Lever
David Clatworthy
Calvin Hooyman
Liah O'Prey
Anne
Carel Nel
Bandit
Gideon van Schoor
Bandit Brother
Andy McPhee
Foreman Jay
Ben Horowitz
Water Guard
Rachel Wood
Orderly
Charles Tertiens
Border Inspector
Vlam Beukes
Mailman
Barry Armitage
Well Dressed Man
Karen Snyman
Well Dressed Woman
Young Ones Ratings & Reviews
jackmeat
January 1, 2025
My quick rating - My quick rating - 5.4/10. A nicely acted scifi flick that isn't all about action and special effects. That is the good thing, the bad is it is rather slow going and leads to a rather obvious ending. I would say this vision of the future looks much more like what we should expect as opposed to a Blade Runner view.
Every Movie Has a Lesson
Don Shanahan
It's "Mad Max" with less accents, hipster/vintage fashion instead of embarrassing rejects from an S&M catalog, and, regrettably, fewer gallons of movie-compelling fuel to push any envelopes.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
"Young Ones" is a futuristic look at a world with little water, but the most barren thing in this Western-sci-fi flick is the character development.
Paste Magazine
Brent Simon
A dusty, Old Testament tone poem of obsession, savagery and other darker human impulses, Young Ones grapples with the long shadows that sins of the past can cast, and the question as to whether they can be escaped.
The Dissolve
Mike D'Angelo
Young Ones tosses a few science-fiction gadgets into a thin, uninspired Western saga and hopes they'll compensate for the tedium.
Examiner.com
Travis Hopson
Drawing influences from The Road, the Westerns of John Ford, and a little bit of Mad Max, Young Ones is a completely unique visual experience.
Common Sense Media
Jeffrey M. Anderson
There's no real connection between the characters' interactions and the futuristic setting.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Too bland to qualify as a really notable disaster, "Young Ones" finds young Paltrow still trying to find his voice.
Detroit News
Tom Long
No matter how grim the future may be, it deserves a better movie in the here and now.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The setting is futuristic, but the themes are ancient in "Young Ones," Jake Paltrow's eccentric merger of frontier western and science-fiction gadgetry.
Central Track
Chase Whale
What could have been a really exceptional movie on the great fight for water and a horrifying portrait on lives lived in isolation just kind of limps along to its finish with all the conviction of a dismissive shrug.
Film Journal International
Ethan Alter
So despite all that ambition and craft on display, why does the movie feel like such a stiff? That's largely because Paltrow's attention is so focused on big-picture details he takes his eyes off what's happening in the foreground with his characters.
AV Club
Keith Uhlich
Would that there were more beneath the surface of this strange brew, but it's certainly compelling while it lasts.
L.A. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Young Ones is an old-fashioned, worthwhile curio with just enough gee-whiz special effects and a soul as cold and grand as Erich von Stroheim's Greed
Oregonian
Jamie S. Rich
Despite beautiful cinematography and quality performances, "Young Ones" never finds a way to sew its good ideas together. The predictable plot is as dry as the desert it portrays.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
A mishmash of ideas and self-conscious execution.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
It avoids the typical trappings of the genre pastiche by utilizing its clear indebtedness to numerous other films as merely a starting point, rather than an end.
JoBlo's Movie Network
Chris Bumbray
Tries to squeeze a little too much into a relatively scant running time, but overall YOUNG ONES is a pretty intriguing sci-fi effort. Michael Shannon is outstanding.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Even grading on a curve for originality, "Young Ones" only halfway works. But it's a genuinely idiosyncratic vision of near-future doom that's never boring, with characters and images that will stick in my mind longer than many better, soberer films.
We Got This Covered
Dominic Mill
As much as I wanted to enjoy it, Young Ones' over-stretched plot and stunted script leaves it feeling like an art-house short that was given too much money.
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