Hey everyone, how are you all doing today? It's been a very long time since I made any publications concerning movie reviews and here I am today with one in a sincere manner like my every other movie/series reviews so let's get to it already.
OK. If you enjoy an over-the-top action-comedy with buckets of gore, bad guys that can't shoot straight and good guys that can't seem to miss... and who doesn't... this is the movie for you.
The movie is set in a dystopian society run by a paranoid and evil woman, Hilda van der Koy, played by Famke Janssen. Our hero, known only as "Boy", is deaf and mute and is being 'raised" by a Shaman who is teaching him to fight for the purpose of eliminating the aforementioned Hilda and her family of psychopaths.
Bill Skarsgård (IT, John Wick 4) plays the part perfectly. Remember, he has no lines, we only hear his inner voice so he has to communicate with his body language and facial expressions.
The Van Der Koys have a ritual "culling" where Hilda has put together a list of "enemies" and they are rounded up and murdered on television by breakfast cereal mascots. You read that correctly. Boy has an inner voice played by H. Jon. Benjamin (Sterling Archer, Bob Belcher) and truly makes the entire movie enjoyable.
Boy reads lips, but not entirely well. He's also haunted by the apparition of his sister who was supposedly killed along with his mother by the evil Hilda. More comic relief. Boy intervenes in a culling along with some rather useless resistance fighters and chaos ensues. There are some plots twists, lots of over-the-top violence and the boss battle to beat all boss battles.
I enjoyed every minute of this movie, from the training montages, to the end credit scenes as this movie is so over-the-top tongue-in-cheek violent that the gore is more comedic than horrific.
H. Jon Benjamin is the new Patrick Warburton. His voice is easily recognizable, his deadpan sarcasm a delight. And he's in EVERYTHING these days. Of note is the director, Moritz Mohr. This is his first feature length film. He's done a few shorts prior to this. I think he nailed it and I expect to see him pop up more in the future.
Also of note is that this movie was filmed in South Africa and has had almost zero marketing. Go see this.
