STARRING: Bill Skarsgard, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Famke Janssen, Sharlto Copley, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa and Andrew Koji, Yayan Ruhian and the voice of H. Jon Benjamin. Story by Arend Remmers and Moritz Mohr, screenplay by Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers. Produced by Sam Raimi and Directed by Moritz Mohr. Running time 111 minutes.
Set in the near future this comedy action romp sees Skarsgard plays Boy, a deaf mute boy whose mother and sister, Mina was killed years earlier by the Can Der Koy family headed by Famke Janssen's Hilda. Boy escaped into the forest to be raised and trained to be the ultimate killer by Yayan Ruhian's Shaman. Now years later he sets off on the revenge trail to kill everyone, including Can Der Koy's top female henchwoman and killer, the crash helmeted June 27, Jessica Rothe.
What follows is a relentless, chaotic, vertigo inducing, frenzied gratuitous orgy of ultra violence and blood letting, filmed and edited as if played back at high speed. The cutting is so furious and kinetic that it's almost impossible to see what's going on. The conceit of Boy's deafness is mostly ignored and because our hero is the so-called action hero is mute it's left to everyone else to propel the overly complicated plot along with over-the-top delivery and overly dramatic characters.
Once again, it's one of those films whose trailer is far more enjoyable than the finished product.
It probably doesn't help that I watched this before Commando but wrote this review after, because in comparison, this, Boy Kills World is just all style and no content. And two days later I can barely remember a thing about it, aside from some truly over the top kills and some relentless non-stop action sequences that the John Wick films pioneered and did far better.
Left nearly two hours later, weary and a little bored.
6/10
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