It’s like if Anon actually tried to be something remotely interesting.
Bill Milner plays Tom, a somewhat awkward teenage boy who is growing up in a London neighborhood riddled with gang violence. Tom is shot by a local gang member after walking in on a home invasion and when he wakes up, he has super powers!
Well, kind of.
Bits of his phone are lodged in his brain, giving him the ability to manipulate electronics. He decides to use his powers to try to rid his neighborhood of the gangs and to get justice for his friend (and romantic interest) Lucy, played by Maisy Williams who was raped during the home invasion where Tom was shot. Tom uses his powers in little ways to weed out the gang members and ensure they are punished for what they did to Lucy and for the most part he is successful. But as Tom goes bolder with his attacks things, as you might expect, start to get out of hand as he goes higher and higher up the chain and after the big boss.
Tom’s powers are rather inexplicable like how could parts of a phone lodged in his brain give him these abilities? But in the realm of cinematic possibilities you know where nuclear radiation can give you superpowers instead of radiation poisoning, anything is possible. In iBOY, you’ve got an average kid trying to better his neighborhood and help other people by ridding it of crime by means of technology. It’s not thaaaaat far fetched.
I’m not gonna tell you that this was an amazing movie or if you don’t watch it you’re missing out. But it was an interesting. The baddies in the film are better developed than in ANON and the threat to Tom and his friends is more tangible and realistic for the scenario and setting presented. And it helps that the main characters, Tom and Lucy, actually have emotions (ha ha ha) so it’s easier to care about them and their struggles. Heck, even some of those teens in the gang aren’t real monsters, just punk kids who really could use a swift kick in the ass.
And honestly, as an American, I find the pacing and styling of films made in the UK to be fascinating. So they’re always worth a watch for me.
If I had to watch iBOY again, I wouldn’t mind it. And who knows, you might like it too.
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