Boy Kills World (2024)

‘Boy Kills World’ blends ‘John Wick’ with ‘The Hunger Games’ to hit hard. The new movie, which stars Bill Skarsgård as a voiceless, vengeful instrument of death, mixes dystopian tropes with a comedy voice-over from H. Jon Benjamin.

In theaters on Friday, April 26th, ‘Boy Kills World’ is a revenge thriller that choose to layer dark, madcap humor over its clear ‘John Wick’ influence. Powered by a solid, committed central performance from Bill Skarsgård and some entertaining quirk from elsewhere in the cast, it does somewhat fall victim to a thin storyline that gives it much more of a style over substance feel and sometimes comes across as a video game rather than a movie. Still, with some interesting permutations later in the plot, it does prove to have a little more going on under the surface.