iBoy – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – Action – I
Director: Adam Randall (I See You)
Writer: Joe Barton, Mark Denton, Jonny Stockwood (Screenplay)
Writer: Kevin Brooks (Novel)
Cast
- Bill Milner (Son of Rambow)
- Maisie Williams (Departure)
- Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow)
- Rory Kinnear (Men)
- Jordan Bolger (The Woman King)
Plot: After being shot, Tom awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smartphone have been embedded in his head–and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of superpowers.
Runtime: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: iBoy starts when troubled schoolboy Tom (Milner) gets shot while visiting a friend Lucy (Williams). However, the bullet sends fragments of his phone into his brain. As Tom starts to recover, he picks up digital signals and learns to process them.
Tom decides to use his new gift to help the people in the neighbourhood, taking on the gangs, including the one that injured him. It sees changes happening and the gangs becoming more aggressive as they try to regain control.
Verdict on iBoy
iBoy is an action sci-fi movie following a teenager who gains an unlikely power after being shot. He can connect with technology after fragments of his phone connected to his brain. It sees him using his new gift to try and clean up the local neighbourhood of the gang’s causing chaos.
This film shows how gangs can cause chaos in London estates dragging innocent people into their crimes and causing pain to them. It uses the superpower origin concept to create an environment where someone fights back for the good. All in all, we get a movie of an unlikely vigilante fighting back against criminals and how much it ends up costing him.
Where to Watch
JustWatch
Final Thoughts – iBoy is an entertaining vigilante story.
