Kill Your Friends
- Director: Owen Harris
- Writer: John Niven
- Producer: Len Blavatnik; Gregor Cameron
CGiii Comment
First, Nicholas Hoult is woefully miscast. Too, too young. He doesn't do the 'putrid-scumbag' convincingly enough...you still kinda like him (in a boyish sort-of-way)...perhaps, that was the intention!?! Kiss the hand that stabs you!
The role needed a certain suave sophistication, a maturity with ingrained cynicism...and, a charm that only certain men can deliver. What we get is a little shit who deserves to be kicked up the ass and sent to juvenile detention...for life.
There's no light and shade...it's all just dark (and cruel). Billed as a comedy...it most certainly is not a comedy. Laugh at this...seek a medical intervention immediately. You are disturbed.
It's an unsubtle satire for the music industry...basically, whatever it takes to succeed...do it!
As a comment on this modern-age polluted with and by the fame-thirsty trolls...it's terrifying.
103 minutes of unenjoyable depravity...can depravity ever be enjoyable?!?
There's a gay record exec...a vegan songstress...a whole host of bash-their-brains-out characters...they all become the butt of...of an endless self-opinionated cruelty.
It's toxic to watch...and, it should make your skin crawl. It will make you feel dirty.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
Cast & Characters
Ed Skrein as Rent;
Nicholas Hoult as Stelfox;
James Corden as Waters;
Rosanna Arquette as Barbara;
Craig Roberts as Darren;
Tom Riley as Parker-Hall;
Georgia King as Rebecca;
Joseph Mawle as Trellick;
Rosanna Hoult as Kate;
Moritz Bleibtreu as Rudi;
Damien Molony as Ross;
Edward Hogg as DC Woodham;
Bronson Webb as Hasting;
Al Weaver as Bill;
Ella Smith as Nikki