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Boy Kills World<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Action-Comedy-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 111 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence and gore throughout, language, some drug use, sexual references)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Moritz Mohr\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Music: Ludvig Forssell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 26, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Famke Janssen, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Yayan Ruhian, Nicholas Crovetti, Cameron Crovetti, Quinn Copeland, Sharlto Copley, Andrew Koji, H. Jon Benjamin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0How truly bonkers is Boy Kills World<\/strong>? I\u2019ll tell you how bonkers it is. The internal dialogue of the deaf-mute protagonist is provided by an actor by the name of H. Jon Benjamin. The name might not sound familiar, but you\u2019ve definitely heard the voice before. It\u2019s Bob Belcher, the patriarch from the animated sitcom Bob\u2019s Burgers. He also voices the titular character in Archer. Hearing Bob Belcher\u2019s voice over all the bone-crushing violence and bloody mayhem makes Boy Kills World<\/strong> feel all the more like an insane fever dream.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The boy of the title Boy Kills World<\/strong> is literally a man named Boy (Skarsgard, It). Set in a futuristic totalitarian dystopia, he wants revenge against the evil leaders who executed his mother and sister as enemies of the state. After he somehow escapes, he\u2019s taken in by a drug-crazed lunatic named \u201cShaman\u201d (Ruhian, The Raid) who mercilessly trains him to become an instrument of death. Finally, the day comes when Boy unleashes his full fury on the baddies that wronged him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The top dog of this futuristic hellhole is Hilda van der Koy (Janssen, X-Men), a sociopath who rules with an iron fist. Her regime, a family operation, includes her daughters Melanie (Dockery, Downton Abbey) and July 27 (Rothe, Happy Death Day), son Gideon (Gelman, Stranger Things) and son-in-law Glen (Copley, District 9).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0In what must be a nod to The Hunger Games, there\u2019s a yearly event called \u201cThe Culling\u201d in which troublemakers are rounded up and executed on live television. Here\u2019s where it gets weird. The executioners are dressed as characters from Frosty Puffs, a popular breakfast cereal once enjoyed by Boy and his kid sister Mina (Copeland, Punky Brewster) who\u2019s still with him via hallucinations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0There have been an unusual number of really good movies these past couple of months. The list includes Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil, Monkey Man, Sting, Abigail and now Boy Kills World<\/strong>. It\u2019s wild! The plot is a no-brainer even with the big twist in the final act. Director Moritz Mohr, making his feature film debut, keeps things moving along at a rapid pace. The action sequences are pure dynamite. Boy is an unstoppable killing machine who punches, kicks, slices and dices his way through scores of costumed henchman with relative ease. Mohr doesn\u2019t hold back either. He goes full tilt boogie crazy with the violence and gore. Boy Kills World<\/strong> is the very definition of OTT.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I typically don\u2019t like movies that play like live-action video games, but I\u2019m going to make an exception in the case of Boy Kills World<\/strong>. It works in its favor because it\u2019s part of Boy\u2019s character. His inner voice, the Bob\u2019s Burgers guy, is inspired by a video game he played as a child. When he fights, he\u2019s like the indestructible hero from the game. It makes sense to do it this way. Same goes for the characters more or less. Other than Boy- we learn all about his backstory through flashbacks that might or might not be hallucinations- there isn\u2019t a whole hell of a lot to them. July 27 (yes, that\u2019s her name) is a ruthless enforcer who wears a helmet with an LED screen that shows the words she\u2019s thinking. That\u2019s a neat idea actually. The rest of the family is…. well, they\u2019re basically a media empire that runs on dysfunction. The good news is the actors seem to be having fun. Skarsgard does commendable work as Boy, perhaps a sign of what\u2019s to come when he plays the lead in The Crow reboot later this year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I don\u2019t want to get too hung up on minutiae here. I don\u2019t think the usual rules of film criticism apply to Boy Kills World<\/strong>. It\u2019s a frenetic, loud, colossally dumb action flick that caters to the short attention span demographic. Yet I can\u2019t bring myself to hate or dislike it. There\u2019s something brilliant about it actually. I love the way Mohr just says \u201cf*** it\u201d and lets everybody go nuts. I had a blast watching it. Now I just have to remember to send my brain an apology note.<\/p>\r\n Boy Kills World (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Action-Comedy-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 111 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence and gore throughout, language, some drug use, sexual references)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Moritz Mohr\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Music: Ludvig Forssell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 26, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Famke Janssen, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Yayan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure","category-kick-ass-actioners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Boy-Kills-World-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Boy-Kills-World-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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