Boy Kills World 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

A hearing-impaired boy named Boy has his family killed. The hero escapes into the jungle, where he finds a mysterious shaman who teaches the boy to suppress his childhood fantasies and makes him an instrument of retribution.

Boy Kills World 4K Review
It won't be long before Bill Skarsgard dies and is resurrected in the name of great love - a remake of The Crow starring the actor will hit the big screens. So far, director Moritz Mora's debut film, “Boy Kills World” will prepare the viewer for Skarsgard's embittered profile on the way to the main goal (killing those who took away the most precious things from his characters).

The opening scene tells the story of Patsan, who lives in the jungle, trains with a shaman (Jayant Ruhian) and prepares to kill Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) - she was the one who shot the hero's mother and sister. The Kid himself is deaf-mute, and so his inner voice sounds like a videogame's motherly character. There is only one obstacle that prevents the hero from becoming a real lethal weapon - visions of his dead sister, who talks non-stop, or appears at the most unnecessary moment.

“Boy Kills World” initially sets the bar high and puts Bill Skarsgard on the same starting point as Rutger Hauer in “Blind Fury”: both are embittered, disabled and use themselves as weapons. However, Mohr prefers a comedic mood for a revenge story, so a harsh voice voices the Kid's thoughts throughout the movie: usually either forbiddingly pathos phrases or rather flat jokes. Sometimes the inner self characterizes the hero's condition with dictionary definitions, because his reading was the only entertainment in the jungle besides the exhausting training. There is a suspicion that the creators were inspired by “Deadpool”: as reckless and ridiculous seems the main character at first, but turns out to be less professional than Hauer, and much more naive superhuman in red tights.

The drama of Patsan, unfortunately, is not at all regrettable - not even the final plottwist, from which the creators were clearly preparing to rip off a score, saves. Much more interesting to watch the family of antagonists. Cheta Van Der Koeev in fact already and itself is not happy to be in the same harness with Hilda. The woman once established a dictatorship in the city and decided to organize show trials, which involved 12 “enemies of society”. Now they're randomly selected from the civilians, while Hilda herself stays in her bunker, paranoid that there are enemies all around. In the other Van Der Kooys, however, real talent is clearly dying: the head of security Benny (Isaiah Mustafa) should definitely go into screenwriting, Melanie (Michelle Dockery) is a truly brilliant PR woman, and her husband Glen (Sharlto Copley) should just go to a therapist.

The movie does not give a clear explanation why Hilda decided to take over the city and why she is still looking for some enemies. Probably because “Boy Kills World” is an amoral mess with predictable plot twists, and the humor keeps the bar at the level of school trolling. The only thing the movie boasts is a very approachable look at the fight scenes, which look more like the X-Ray mode in a Mortal Kombat game - so much so the director relishes the bones flying out from under the skin. Dev Patel's recently released directorial debut, “Mankiman,” is very similar in content to “The Kid,” but proves to be more thoughtful, detailed and stylish. Both films have a scene in an elevator where the hero is filled with true rage, but that's the only similarity aside from the initial revenge motive.

Before watching it seems that the significance of the picture will add Sam Raimi as a producer, but in the end, he brings nothing but a big name and specific color correction. In “Boy Kills World” sometimes there is something to hold on to: for example, suddenly in a more or less comedy scene in the background plays Buryakovsky's play, but this is not enough for the sophisticated viewer. The idea of tired antagonists who no longer have the strength left for villainy is not refreshing enough for a story about a vigilante hungry for retribution. As a result, “Boy Kills World” is an average slasher comedy action movie with the motto “so bad it's good” about the consequences of the deeds of a paranoid antagonist sitting in a bunker and preventing others from living.