The Darkest Minds is based on a 2012 young adult novel by Alexandra Bracken, but its themes and plot are up to the minute. A story about children who are taken from their parents and warehoused, government camps, and a callous, mendacious authoritarian president couldn’t be much more relevant in the Trump era. The book was pretty standard fare, but the film had an unexpected chance to capitalize on, and speak to, present policies that seem as bleak and cruel as any nightmare apocalypse.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen. Instead of building on its most pertinent themes — or on any themes — The Darkest Minds wanders around haplessly in a fog of tired tropes and unmotivated bits of plot. It has neither inspiration nor purpose, and it...
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