Young Ones (Jake Paltrow, 2014)

Another day in dystopian future America, and this time lack of water is the chief vexation, along with the concomitant breakdown in social order, albeit a mild case as these things go. A father of two struggles to get his crops going in an area given up as lost by most of the inhabitants, except for ones with bad intentions. Michael Shannon, as the dad, cashes in his chips pretty early and then it's up to his son to exact revenge. The film tries for many different styles outside its basic Western set-up, and fails to really make much of any of them. There's clearly an earnest desire to say something meaningful behind it all, but the script is far too pedestrian to achieve that.

4/10