ReviewBoy Kills World movie review: Bill Skarsgard is a killing machine on a mission in exhausting, blood-soaked thriller
- Bill Skarsgard plays the deaf-mute Boy, who is out for the blood of Famke Janssen’s tyrant and narrates every moment through a comic-book-style inner monologue
- The star’s physicality is impressive, but the orgy of violence that ensues with barely a pause for breath leads to a predictable ending
2/5 stars
Exploding onto the screen like the bastard son of a dozen 1980s action movies and an arcade full of beat-’em-up video games, Boy Kills World is a whirl of blood-soaked martial arts and jet black humour that barely pauses for breath.
Over the course of two hours, Boy tears through the hierarchy of a near-future dystopia in the hopes of destroying the regal Van Der Koys, responsible for murdering his family.
The hook to Boy Kills World is that, because of his debilitated senses, Boy narrates his every waking moment through an incessant internal monologue, in a voice lifted from his favourite childhood video game, Super Dragon Punch Force 3.
Comedian and voice artist H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) provides Boy with the vocal identity for his relentlessly self-aware, comic-book-style voice-over.