It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

So glad they stuck closely with the book! please give us never fade!!!!!

Dear sci fi lovers, now you can speak. The Darkest Minds is movie designed not just for sci fi watchers, but also for everybody. Why? Because this movie relates the drama within their main story. The ability of Amandla Stenberg (as Ruby) here to erase memories in other people's mind is explaining what the most important in human bran: The memory. The main story thereof is about government on how to control their people mind, memory, and identity. The uncured disease across America is just the beginning plot in most of Hollywood movies, just to give scenes about how America can do disaster management in urgent situations, but the most important the Director wants to show is that the ability of people to be together, protect each other, and then to revenge back to take back all things or people had been taken before. The struggle to fight is just the lead scenes to see that each people has their own right to choose their path in this life, no matter how strange they are in the society. This movie is powerful because the acting of all actors are great. We really forget that this just a movie, we thought that we see our own self or our own family in the story. This is also a sci fi movie with touch of drama. Yes, there is Amandla Stenberg, the most wanted newcomer in Hollywood and since her appearance, this movie is no longer the same. Wait until the end to make you cry a little bit, but a happiness that this kind of sci fi is finally born in Hollywood industry. Thank you, producer!

The whole story line has been done so many times before, so predictable. The only thing that makes this movie watchable is the lead female roll. She's a standout. The males just fall behind. However, No chemistry between her and the male lead. It felt like she was talking to her brother. Last 10 minutes seemed to drag along, and I couldn't stop rolling my eyes. Great movie for teenagers and I'm sure young people will enjoy it.

A plague kills the majority of the world's children. Those who survive have various paranormal abilities, and are graded by the government from Green (the majority, with simple, safe powers) up through the colours to Orange (rare, and so dangerous that they are to be killed on identification). 10 year old Orange Ruby survives by pretending to be Green inside one of the the prison camps which house all children. When the authorities finally realise the truth, Ruby escapes and enters one of the underground factions.This film is an adaptation of the first of a Young Adult novel trilogy (yes, another one). As a result, there is no real ending. The story works moderately well as it goes along, but leaves you with a host of unanswered questions at the end. Maybe some of them are addressed in subsequent instalments, but the absence of answers here is pretty unsatisfying. The whole prison camp with sadistic guards scenario is difficult to swallow, for a start.The young cast work hard and do quite well. Amandla Stenberg is pneumatic, as she was in Everything, Everything, as Ruby, and pulls off a pleasingly emotional sequence towards the end.As a science fiction lover, I felt this had the potential to be better, though.