Boy Kills World is one of those movies that has cult status written all over it. With his family killed when he was a child in an annual ritual societal event, The Culling, Boy is taken in and trained by a shaman and trained as an assassin, and as a mute/deaf adult he takes his bloody revenge. The film hearkens back to the hard-boiled Asian action fight-fest movies that influenced Tarantino. The insane action and violence displayed on screen is leavened by a strange cheesiness, largely created by Boy's inner-voice narration that mimics a videogame character, some darkly comic moments, a contrapuntally whimsical soundtrack and a Hunger Games-styled exaggerated ruling dynasty. As the adult Boy, Bill Skarsgard - in the physical shape of his life - convinces as the purposeful killing machine and successfully engages without using speech. The blood-soaked one-on-one final act showdown is relentlessly brutal, and overall Boy Kills World is a peculiar little film that works satisfactorily on its own terms within its own videogame-styled surreal little world. Look out for the brief but interestingly-played end-of-credits scene.
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