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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
Many times when I decide to see a movie I do it without having absolutely no idea of what I'm going to see. Sometimes I'm disappointed because I haven't seen something, the trailer or an opinion, and so I avoid a bad time, but other times I'm really surprised because it turns out that I was looking for copper and I end up finding gold. Boy Kills World, a film that nobody seems to be talking about and that came to continue vindicating the revenge action genre, something like Monkey Man, which I told you about a few days ago. The thing is that we are in front of a movie that from one moment to the next was very, very similar to Kill Bill, both in its action, plot and that particular comedy that was in its lines of dialogue and in some other scenes.
Boy (Bill Skarsgård) is a young deaf-mute who has been through a lot. His childhood was not the best or the most beautiful because in those years he lived things that no child should live. This is set in a dystopian future where a family, the Van Der Koy, have subdued an entire society under an inclement yoke, family led by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Jannsen), yes, the same of Taken. This woman is the most unhinged there can be, so she represents a serious danger to everyone. What happens then? - Well, after one of the events that marked Boy, he ends up in a lost jungle, finally falling into the hands of a mysterious shaman.
It turns out that this shaman in question begins to train Boy for a long period of time to turn him into a real killing and revenge machine, this training goes beyond the physical because it also seeks to dominate his mind and imagination to the point of suppressing part of that past. Once ready, he decides to set a “plan” in motion and together with a couple of characters he meets by chance, among them Basho (Andrew Koji), he begins to roll this chariot of pure revenge. What's to come you can imagine. As I already told you this is a movie very similar to Kill Bill, at least in my opinion, which made me enjoy it fully, impossible to get bored.
These movies where revenge is the main engine of almost all the characters are usually entertaining because they give us some rations of action and hatred that end in a somewhat flat plot but with some exceptional action scenes and sequences. Almost all the scenes combined the typical fights full of martial arts in all their styles with firearms, knives, axes and stop counting. This makes the showiness is important and one ends up enraptured with everything that happens on the screen. The game of cameras, the amount of blood, a lot of gore, decapitations, dismemberments; in general it is very explicit, which I think is great.
The plot is well known, surely many will imagine more or less how it goes but this film has something that I think was what got me hooked and it is a massive plot twist that completely threw me off since I honestly did not expect it. The good use of this resource can make a film go from being good to very good, fortunately this is exactly what happens here. The comedy is another important factor, it's there to lighten things up a bit, sometimes it takes us out of the mood we're in but quickly picks up the seriousness of the matter. Hilarious performances, lines and phrases in the dialogues are quite particular, the characters' personalities themselves are a bit extravagant, which helps to keep the laughs coming.
I was very surprised with Bill Skarsgård, I didn't have this actor within this range of interpretation where he was seen showing skills in martial arts and action scenes, I think he did it at the height. Not being able to speak, he had to express everything with his face, this is cool because we always have a voice-over that tells us what he is thinking which makes it more complicated. All the supporting characters are great because they are all unique. Insane, eccentric, egomaniacs, an endless number of characteristics that go very well with the atmosphere of the film.
In the end I give it an 8/10, the film is really top, I liked it a lot. I didn't have it on my radar and I'm really glad I found it. Lots of action, comedy, good sequences in their scenes and a plot that invites you to think one thing to change your way in the blink of an eye. I'm telling you, you won't get bored. It lasts less than two hours. Highly recommended to everyone, especially to those who like the genre. I leave you the trailer so you can see more or less what it's about.
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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!