iBoy
The movie is about a high school boy who wakes from a coma with parts of his cellphone embedded in his brain. And worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of super powers.
15 April 1997, Bristol, England, UK
9 February 1992, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
27 March 1996, Accra, Ghana
15 July 1951, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
4 March 1995, Surrey, England, UK
January 23, 2017
iBoy 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.
February 01, 2017
[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.
January 26, 2017
Even if this were the place to discuss such matters, director Adam Randall (adapting Kevin Brooks's novel) has little new to say.
January 20, 2017
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.
January 25, 2017
There is a persistent and disconcerting joylessness about this.
January 25, 2017
iBoy 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.
January 31, 2017
Violent book-based thriller has cursing, mature themes.
January 23, 2017
Entertaining High-concept superhero movie with some glaring pacing issues.
January 29, 2017
The film's secret superhero is Maisie Williams as Lucy.
January 30, 2017
iBoy is a fully charged superhero tale that soon overcomes its admittedly ludicrous premise.

