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‘Boy Kills World’ Review: Bill Skarsgård Is a Deaf-Mute Avenger in an Action Film So Ultraviolent It’s Like ‘John Wick’ Gone ‘Clockwork Orange’
Bill Skarsgård plays a deaf-mute avenger in a movie that draws on many sources, from video games to "The Hunger Games," to build a world all its own.
In “ Boy Kills World,” Bill Skarsgård has burning eyes and model cheekbones, sinewy arms popping out of a dirty red athletic vest, and a feral pout that make him look like Jean-Claude van Damme crossed with Lou Reed. Raised on a mountain by a martial-arts trainer called the Shaman (Yayan Ruhian), who may remind you, at first, of the Zen master in “Kill Bill: Volume 2,” Boy had his past taken away from him by a vicious totalitarian regime. It’s a dysfunctional family of rulers who are at each other’s throats, and Mohr, working from a script by Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers, has fun fleshing out these baroque villains.
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