It's called Boy Kills World, not Boy Meets World. So as not to get those two titles confused. It can happen, until you sit down to watch this one.
It's not going to be confused with any arthouse, fancy cinema fare, either.
There is an audience for this and they will be completely entertained and walk out of this experience totally satisfied.
I'm just not a part of that audience.
It's a decent flick.
Just based on the inspired casting and the look of the whole movie alone, it has to be a six.
But I have to stop there.
If you're well versed in action films that predate, I'd say, 2010, then you've seen this movie before and with better execution and certainly a better, more detailed storyline.
The fight sequences are solid but the rest of it is not.
The protagonist is a deaf mute who's hellbent on revenge.
Only we hear his inner thoughts.
A lot.
He talks so much in voiceover that it gets old super quick and it never stops.
The whole movie.
A quip here.
A deep thought there.
Thoughts on this. Thoughts on that.
He may be kicking major butts but he's a regular chatty Cathy on the inside.
Good grief.
There's still things to love about this movie.
Famke Janssen (Rounders), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) two of my all time crushes.
Love them still and love them both here. Lots.
Yayan Ruhian (The stellar Raid films) and Brett Gelman (The Other Guys, Stranger Things) Love those dudes!
And I totally get Bill Skarsgard trying TJ distance himself from It, and rip himself up for this role.
But as good as this movie looks, and everybody in here is good in their parts.
It's just not a great movie.
It could be great with better writing and less voiceover.
There are far superior movies out there about vengeance.
Boy not only Kills World, he kills this movie.
Oddly enough, as I consumed this film, it reminded me of a few female driven action movies of the last thirty years or so: Tank Girl, Aeon Flux, and Ultraviolet.
I won't even bother to explain it but it just does.
There is an end scene of some substance that's worth sticking around for.
It's not going to be confused with any arthouse, fancy cinema fare, either.
There is an audience for this and they will be completely entertained and walk out of this experience totally satisfied.
I'm just not a part of that audience.
It's a decent flick.
Just based on the inspired casting and the look of the whole movie alone, it has to be a six.
But I have to stop there.
If you're well versed in action films that predate, I'd say, 2010, then you've seen this movie before and with better execution and certainly a better, more detailed storyline.
The fight sequences are solid but the rest of it is not.
The protagonist is a deaf mute who's hellbent on revenge.
Only we hear his inner thoughts.
A lot.
He talks so much in voiceover that it gets old super quick and it never stops.
The whole movie.
A quip here.
A deep thought there.
Thoughts on this. Thoughts on that.
He may be kicking major butts but he's a regular chatty Cathy on the inside.
Good grief.
There's still things to love about this movie.
Famke Janssen (Rounders), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) two of my all time crushes.
Love them still and love them both here. Lots.
Yayan Ruhian (The stellar Raid films) and Brett Gelman (The Other Guys, Stranger Things) Love those dudes!
And I totally get Bill Skarsgard trying TJ distance himself from It, and rip himself up for this role.
But as good as this movie looks, and everybody in here is good in their parts.
It's just not a great movie.
It could be great with better writing and less voiceover.
There are far superior movies out there about vengeance.
Boy not only Kills World, he kills this movie.
Oddly enough, as I consumed this film, it reminded me of a few female driven action movies of the last thirty years or so: Tank Girl, Aeon Flux, and Ultraviolet.
I won't even bother to explain it but it just does.
There is an end scene of some substance that's worth sticking around for.