"Highly Enjoyable SF Action Piece"
Moritz Mohr's extremely entertaining satirical science fiction action picture gets a welcome disc release from Signature Entertainment.
Bill Skarsgard is the 'Boy' of the title. As the film opens we see that his parents were killed in front of him when he was a child. Unable to either hear or speak, he adopted for his internal monologue (which we are party to) the voice of his favourite video game and headed off into the jungle to be trained in martial arts by a shaman (Yahan Ruhian).
All of this means that by the second act we have Bill Skarsgard as an instrument of death with the voice of H Jon Benjamin, out to get revenge on Famke Janssen's evil family who now rule what is left of the world.
"Do you know how hard it is to get a cereal company to sponsor mass murder?" There are parts of BOY KILLS WORLD that reach near-ROBOCOP levels of satirical violent SF perfection, and it's hard to think of another film that's as enjoyable in the same way as the Verhoeven classic. The script is witty, the camerawork is kinetic while never resorting to shakicam confusion, and the choreography of some of the fight scenes is something else, with the highpoint being a set piece of utter carnage at a television studio.
Extras on Signature's 4K UHD disc include a 17 minute making of, plus a bunch of very short pieces that range from 34 seconds to just under a minute and a half and include Martial Arts Training, Winter Wonderland, F*cked Up Fairytale, Bill and Yayan, and a couple of trailers.
Action-packed, gory, satirical, and well-cast, BOY KILLS WORLD is the kind of thing pulp entertainment cinema needs a lot more of. Its cinema release was limited and if you missed it Signature's disc comes highly recommended. If you saw it you'll be picking this up anyway. Let's have a trailer:
BOY KILLS WORLD is out on all disc formats (DVD, Blu-ray, 4KUHD) on Monday 5th August 2024
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