8 Years Ago, You Missed the Perfect Post-Apocalypse Thriller with Reeves, Carry, and Momoa

The sentence “Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Suki Waterhouse, and Jason Momoa starred in a post-apocalyptic action thriller with a bizarre premise and setting” features one too many things we love about cinema to even bother counting… Okay, it features exactly eight things we love about cinema — and if you’re anything like us, you’ll be excited to learn that such a movie does, in fact, exist!

What’s The Bad Batch About?

Another one of Ana Lily Amirpour’s melting of ideas, concepts, and tropes that may or may not go well together but indisputably create a memorable setting and story, 2016’s The Bad Batch follows an unfortunate young woman who gets exiled into the dystopian desert as punishment for her crimes by the new American government.

This place is, indeed, the bad batch of America, populated with cannibal groups, drug overlords, and other sinister characters. In her quest to stay alive, the young woman has to switch sides several times, put her trust in the wrong people, and run more than she’d prefer to — especially since at the very start, the cannibals chop off half of her limbs. But she’ll still get to side with them later because of… Reasons.

The Bad Batch Is Wild and Surreal

As you might have deduced from the premise, The Bad Batch is very different from your average movie. It’s borderline experimental and largely inconsistent which led to its questionable Rotten Tomatoes performance with 45 and 30% Audience and Critic Scores, respectively. On IMDb, the movie has a much better 5.2/10 score.

This film is definitely not for everyone, but if you’re a fan of the bizarre and terrifying, it’ll land right up your alley. The sheer star power of Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, and others also compensates for some of the movie’s obvious sins, and overall — it’s quite an entertaining post-apocalypse thriller that’ll make any night better; save for the conventional movie nights, of course.