‘Boy Kills World’ Is a Teenage Boy’s Dream Movie
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Right on the heels of Monkey Man, we have another first-time feature director giving us a creative, stylized revenge story. This time it’s Moritz Mohr who’s giving us a cheeky, hyper-violent, dystopian revenge comedy with Boy Kills World.
Bill Skarsgård is the titular Boy, whose family was killed by totalitarian dictator Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) and her corrupt, power-hungry family. As an abandoned orphan, Boy is trained by a mysterious shaman (The Raid’s Yayan Ruhian) to become an unstoppable killing machine.
Deaf and mute, Boy takes his inner voice (H. Jon Benjamin) from a video game and teams up with the ghost of his little sister (Quinn Copeland) as well as resistance fighters Basho (Andrew Koji) and Bennie (Isaiah Mustafa) to take revenge and bring down the whole Van Der Koy family.
Taking inspiration from video games, action cinema, and comic books, Boy Kills World gives us a fast-paced, ultra-violent story with a fun, humorous tone.
The fight scenes are creative and well-choreographed. Skarsgåard’s lean and lanky build gives him a cool visual flow when combined with the rapid action. One fight featuring a cheese grater felt particularly visceral.
With buckets of blood and even a min-gun minute, this film is everything a teenage boy would love—and I don’t mean that in a bad way. The very fact they’re able to keep it visually interesting on a small budget is genuinely impressive and the movie achieves what it set out to do.
So if you like innovative, bloody fight scenes and smart-ass humor, check out Boy Kills World.
