Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic 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.
He plays a deaf-mute avenger, known only as Boy, who kills people in insanely violent ways. Yet through it all, the character retains his innocence.
He’s a wounded wild child in a man’s body. 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.
During the Culling, an annual ritual where law and order is maintained by the state-sanctioned execution of criminals in the street, Boy saw his little sister, Mina (Quinn Copeland), executed right in front of him.
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