The Bad Batch: Allegorical future-shock cannibal drama is almost a masterpiece The first 45 minutes of director Ana Lilly Amirpour‘s sophomore genre-bender (following the stark, monochrome A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) The Bad Batch is so singular in its vision, so pulsing with energy, art and ideas that by contrast, the rest of it is a bit of a shrug, bleeding out into a wave of exposition and hastily resolved narrative and character arcs. But man, oh man…those first 45 minutes! The Bad Batch literally hits the ground running, with Suki Waterhouse‘s lithe Arlen fleeing a future-Texas desert Hell from motorcycle-riding assailants who takes her back to their camp, restrain her and inject her with some sort of fluid before hacking off her arm and leg and eating them!