The Bad Batch (2016)

THE BAD BATCH  (2016)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Ana Lily Amirpour
    Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves,
    Jim Carrey, Diego Luna, Giovanni Ribisi
A woman named Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) gets dropped off on the far side of a chain-link  border fence, where a sign lets her know she's not in Texas anymore. She's got a sandwich and a gallon of water and nothing to guide her through what appears to be a million square miles of desert except a cryptic instruction: FIND COMFORT. Which she does, eventually, but not before being captured by cannibals who relieve her of an arm and a leg. This is a little like a Mad Max movie, but without the vroom vroom. It's alternately strange, unsettling, hallucinatory, and whenever Keanu Reeves is saying anything at all, ridiculous. Reeves plays a Jim Jones-style cult leader with a harem of visibly pregnant young women. ("Mad Max: Fury Road" had a similar thing going on.) Jim Carey's a ragged hermit. Giovanni Ribisi plays a crazy person. Jason Momoa's the musclebound Miami Man, whose relationship with Arlen is complicated, starting with the fact that he's dined on her missing limbs. Thankfully, motor scooters, disco, LSD, copy machines and spaghetti are all available in this wasteland. There's some comfort in that, I guess.