A brave young woman battles a repressive society in a dystopian future, while honing her archery skills in the process. No, it’s not The Hunger Games, but rather Netflix’s latest cinematic sci-fi YA effort, based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Scott Westerfield that spawned several sequels. Joey King stars in this screen adaptation helmed by McG, and while Uglies won’t erase anyone’s memories of the previously mentioned cinematic franchise, it proves a reasonably engrossing thriller that should please younger audiences.
The hard-working Joey King (the Kissing Booth series, The Act, We Were the Lucky Ones) plays the central role of Tally, who lives in a futuristic world that mandates cosmetic surgery at age 16 for all of its citizens (doesn’t seem that far-fetched an idea these days) who are known as the “Uglies” before they’re transformed into the “Pretties.” Not that Tally objects, as she informs us at
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