
After being shot while calling for help trying to stop a violent attack on his girlfriend, a 16-year-old boy awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smartphone have embedded in his brain, giving him superhero powers. He uses this knowledge and technology to exact revenge on the gang responsible for the attack.... (Full plot summary below)
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After being shot while calling for help trying to stop a violent attack on his girlfriend, a 16-year-old boy awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smartphone have embedded in his brain, giving him superhero powers. He uses this knowledge and technology to exact revenge on the gang responsible for the attack.
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| We Got This CoveredDavid JamesiBoy is a fully charged superhero tale that soon overcomes its admittedly ludicrous premise. |
| Time OutEllie Walker-ArnottiBoy’ is a sparky film, embedded in London’s cheek-by-jowl world of wealth and poverty. It’s also a dark teen drama, peppered with brutal beatings, gang rape, drugs and dead bodies. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tristram Fane SaundersThe film’s secret superhero is Maisie Williams as Lucy. |
| Common Sense MediaBarbara ShulgasserViolent book-based thriller has cursing, mature themes. |
| SciFiNowPoppy-Jay Palmer[The] positives aren't really enough to make iBoy feel like much more than another teen sci-fi. It's a thrill ride up to a point, but there are many films that do what it's doing better and with more heart. |
| ClarínPablo A. ScholzIt's a teen thriller, practically aimed at that audience, but includes fights... bullying and, yes, a romantic story. [Full review in Spanish] |
| HeyUGuysJon LyusEntertaining High-concept superhero movie with some glaring pacing issues. |
| Screen InternationalWendy IdeA superpower movie with a premise absurd even by the far-fetched standards of the genre, iBoy misses out on the opportunity for entertaining mischief with a po-faced approach to the material and a lack of internal logic to the story. |
| The ListEddie HarrisoniBoy has an original-enough concept, taken from a book by Kevin Brooks, but any freshness is muffled by the dated gangster movie clichés peppered throughout the script. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawFor me the superpower idea can only work with humour and lightness of touch: and there is a persistent and disconcerting joylessness about this. |