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Title: The Bad Batch (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Suki Waterhouse | ... | Arlen | |
| Jason Momoa | ... | Miami Man | |
| Jayda Fink | ... | Honey | |
| Keanu Reeves | ... | The Dream | |
| Jim Carrey | ... | The Hermit | |
| Yolonda Ross | ... | Maria | |
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Aye Hasegawa | ... | Mousey |
| Giovanni Ribisi | ... | The Screamer | |
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Louie Lopez Jr. | ... | Chuy (as Louie Lopez) |
| E.R. Ruiz | ... | Lone Man | |
| Cory Roberts | ... | Big Black Bridge Man | |
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Joni Podesta | ... | Muscle Woman #1 |
| Almayvonne | ... | Muscle Woman #2 (as Almayvonne Dixon) | |
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Danielle Orner | ... | One Legged Dancing Girl |
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Mandy Pursley | ... | Junkyard Amputee Woman |
THE BAD BATCH follows Arlen (Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a savage band of cannibals led by the mysterious Miami Man (Momoa). With her life on the line, she makes her way to The Dream (Reeves). As she adjusts to life in 'the bad batch' Arlen discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who's standing next to you.
I went against my instincts when it came to watching 'The Bad Batch'. Every nerve in my body was telling me it would be dreadful, but the words cannibals, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves and Giovanni Ribisi kept repeating over and over in my head until I finally gave in and made the fateful mistake of watching it. My god, how is it possible to make a story this boring out of cannibals? Every single thing it tries to make itself interesting with completely falls flat. When you manage to get a completely dull and forgettable performance out of Jim Carrey you know you're doing something terribly wrong.
The film tries to be thought-provoking (at least it seemed like that was what it was going for) but none of the concepts it presents are in any way actually worthy of a second thought. It also goes for a lot of style, however it again falls short. In a futuristic desert wasteland setting there a thousand different concepts you could use to create an interesting story. For some reason 'The Bad Batch' chooses a story that could have been told in any setting and in any time period. That's about as lazy as story-telling gets. If you do make the mistake of selecting this one up on Netflix brace yourself for a long and painful couple of hours.