Review of Kill Your Friends (2015) by Stefano L — 04 Nov 2016

The novel upon which this is based is a brilliantly dark, shocking and brutal satire on making it in the music business in the British music scene of the 1990's. The book brought to mind comparisons with American Psycho and to a slightly lesser extent, Filth.

The problem with making films from such dark material is that you're always going to have to leave bits out and tone down the movie to secure a release. This still worked with American Psycho and Filth but I felt Kill Your Friends skips over too much and the development of the central character was lost somewhat.

Nicholas Hoult does a fairly decent job in the central role, those that surround him less so. Probably more enjoyable if you haven't read the book.